S-staff tastings? 😳
No one was kicked out of a winery for laughing too hard.
This is what I don’t get about wine snobs-
If it tastes good, who cares how old or new it is, what sort of grapes it comes from, what it was aged in, how much it costs, etc.? Just find a wine you like the taste of and drink that one. And yet they seem to think there’s more to it than ‘I like how this tastes.’
Let me preface this - I don’t consider myself a wine snob by any means.
My wife and I went to wine country a year or so ago and went to some wineries to do tasting tours. We learned quite a lot. For instance, I can now taste the difference between good wine and bad. It basically comes down to the complexity of the flavors. If the wine is good, you can distinguish multiple flavors. If it is not, it just tastes like wine.
As for why people care about where the grapes were grown and that mumobojumbo it is so they can try and correlate their tastes to things they know about wine. “Oh I oiked that bottle - it was a so and so from wherever made from this interesting blend of grapes” so they try other wines from that area or made with similar grapes.
Real connoisseurs can tell the difference. Most make shit up and can’t identify whether a wine is white or red in a blind taste test. Everyone else is just looking for something to snoot about while drinking with their buddies and show off how expensive their supposed tastes are.
Me, personally, I like “earthy” red wines. I don’t really know what that means specifically - that’s what the sommelier said when I told him which of the bottles I preferred and the reasons why I enjoyed those particular wines. Ok. That being said, I’ll drink boxed wine and sometimes I’ll spend $60 on a nice bottle to share on a special occasion.
You can tell at what altitude the terrior was tilled due to minute variances in air pressure in the environment that make its way into the fruit. The feeling is similar to, if not characteristic of, the feeling of ears popping in an aircraft climbing to cruising altitude. It’s nuanced, subtle even, but to the trained aural canal, not difficult to discern.
“The resonance density sounds watered down. Were these grapes picked in the rainy season?”
In fairness, if someone did this I’d probably do the same… Not because I thought there was anything to it or to fit in, but I’d think “huh, now I wonder what it sounds like. Does it make a cool sound?”
I don’t think it’s group think so much as it’s a social learning behavior. If you see someone do something confidently and appear satisfied with the result, you’ll start to wonder if you should try it… It seems to be working for them
So I’ve done a lot of world traveling. Now when I’m with my friends, who have never left the US, I ironically act snobby about dumb shit. “This pizza isn’t as good as the pizza I had in Italy” “This isn’t as good as German beer” “This sushi isn’t like the real sushi in Japan” “if this spider was from Australia I’d already be dead”
I bet they love it
When I was 7 years old, we took a trip to Italy. While in Rome, near the Vatican, we saw a street cart selling pizza. Because I was 8 and all I had to eat was Italian food for days, I asked for the pizza.
It was, and I still say this 39 years later, the absolute worst pizza I have ever had in my life.
Do not eat American-style pizza in Italy.
You call this a mugging? In Belfast, they have real muggings!
Pff that’s nothing like the guns they have in Switzerland!
I hope they know you’re joking otherwise you might come off as a bit of an asshole
