{"id":1359,"date":"2019-08-31T20:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2019-08-31T20:01:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T20:01:45","slug":"how-not-to-be-a-wine-snob-part-1-acceptable-snobbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1359","title":{"rendered":"How NOT to Be a Wine Snob \u2013 Part 1: Acceptable Snobbery"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the first in what will be an irregular series on wine snobbery and how to avoid it.<\/em><\/p>\n

There is a difference between being a wine snob and being a wine lover.\u00a0 Many people enjoy just a glass wine or two with dinner.\u00a0 Some of them (and you are one if you are reading Power Tasting<\/em>) get pleasure from reading about wine, travelling to Wine Country to taste wine and talk about wine with their friends.\u00a0 Wine snobs do all those things too but the essence of their snobbery is that they want to be and be seen to be superior in their wine knowledge compared with their friends.\u00a0 Worse yet, for those of us who appreciate wine tasting, is that they also like to lord it over total strangers standing next to them in winery\u2019s tasting room.\u00a0 You don\u2019t want to be one of those people.<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of theguardian.com<\/em><\/p>\n

Before we can talk about how NOT to be a wine snob, we ought to have an understanding of what typifies such a person.\u00a0 This becomes problematic, because there are certain things that all wine lovers do that might be considered snobbery by those who only occasionally get involved with wine.\u00a0 So it makes sense to consider the things that might be seen as snobbish by some people, but which we think are acceptable.<\/p>\n