wine snobs
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miriam_eIt always gives me the pip when I overhear people talking about the qualities of wines.
It is a poison! Get over it! Let's be honest here. It is something which has one use only: getting intoxicated. That doesn't always mean blind drunk -- it can mean a relaxing glass with a meal, but it differs only in degree.
The aesthetic pleasure of wine is an illusion. Remember your first drink of wine? How revolting it tasted? That is how wine really tastes. If you think it tastes nice now then you have been conned by the simplest of pavlovian responses. The pleasure centers of your brain look forward to intoxication and generate a nice feeling when you drink the wine. You have associated that with the taste and mistaken the taste for the source of pleasure. So why does a Brown Brothers wine taste better than a cheap cask? The latter also has other, less pleasurable poisons, for example sulphur dioxide, added to prevent spoiling. And what about the supposed health benefits of wine? I think that was the most brilliant P.R. job of the century. I have read far more believable surveys (in my opinion) that showed the healthiest, longest lived people turned out to be Seventh Day Adventist teetotalers.
If you drink wine then for heavens sake be honest with yourself: it is to get yourself off.
It is a poison! Get over it! Let's be honest here. It is something which has one use only: getting intoxicated. That doesn't always mean blind drunk -- it can mean a relaxing glass with a meal, but it differs only in degree.
The aesthetic pleasure of wine is an illusion. Remember your first drink of wine? How revolting it tasted? That is how wine really tastes. If you think it tastes nice now then you have been conned by the simplest of pavlovian responses. The pleasure centers of your brain look forward to intoxication and generate a nice feeling when you drink the wine. You have associated that with the taste and mistaken the taste for the source of pleasure. So why does a Brown Brothers wine taste better than a cheap cask? The latter also has other, less pleasurable poisons, for example sulphur dioxide, added to prevent spoiling. And what about the supposed health benefits of wine? I think that was the most brilliant P.R. job of the century. I have read far more believable surveys (in my opinion) that showed the healthiest, longest lived people turned out to be Seventh Day Adventist teetotalers.
If you drink wine then for heavens sake be honest with yourself: it is to get yourself off.
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wine snobs
Date: 2004-09-23 03:07 pm (UTC)Yes Mims I did survive the Hurricanes all high and dry sipping my Boonesfarm looking out my back door.Watching the cows swirl on by.. wait no that was wizard of OZ.. see what intoxication does. But I did get to see other stuff flying about and that was kinda kewl. al tho I am looking forward to taking the boards down off my windows after season..
Be well
Jenna