I was reading the Globe and Mail and saw this article in the Q&A section of “Ask an Entertaining expert”. The question was as follows:
“Over the past few years, my wife and I have become wine snobs and regularly drink $40-to-$50 bottles. Our problem is when we go to friends’ homes or any party. We stand out because we bring our own stemware and people are always curious about what we are drinking. Our bottles are hard to protect in a sea of lower-end wines and we stand out as unfriendly if we do not share. How do you handle this?”
(BLAH BLAH BLAH I want to bring an expensive bottle of wine to a party and not share any. Is this unfriendly? )
I could tell you what the response to this was but would be curious to hear what you have to say about it…….send me you thoughts, let’s get a conversation going!
As for me and what I think…..drink you fancy bottle of wine in your fancy cup at home! When you’re at a party, most of the fun in drinking wine (expensive or inexpensive) is sharing your experience and talking about it with others!
This is a comment I got via email:
ReplyDelete"I'm no Hyderabadi, but I think the answer to this is universal among the 99% of us out there: these people are losers and they need to get over themselves.
Interestingly, there was a serious research done by economists recently (broadcasted on Freekonomics Podcast, November 2011) which actually makes clear that there is no correlation between expensive wine and "good wines". In other words, unless you tell people they are drinking an expensive wine, they have no clue what to think and cheap wines beat the expensive ones as often as the vice versa.
Wine snobs drive me mad, personally. I put these fools to the test, Freakonomic style, and have not doubt they'll be shamed.
In the meantime, let them spend their money on expensive wine... let them share for fear of looking like fools, only try this: put their battle in a carafe, along with the cheap one, in an identical one... then have people rate their experience around the table. It will make for interesting debates, no doubt, on the placebo affect and other such wonders". CP