{"id":1365,"date":"2019-10-01T13:17:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T13:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2019-11-29T21:30:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T21:30:40","slug":"how-not-to-be-a-wine-snob-part-2-italy-and-the-rest-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1365","title":{"rendered":"How NOT to Be a Wine Snob \u2013 Part 2: Italy and the Rest of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

The popular American view of European wine lovers is that they are all snobs.\u00a0 Equally, many Europeans think that Americans, wine lovers or not, are hicks.\u00a0 Of course, neither typification is true, but there are just enough people who fit either category to give life to the stereotypes.\u00a0 It does no one any good to show a European that Americans can be wine snobs also.<\/p>\n

In our experience, those Americans who try to show themselves as superior in their wine knowledge compared with their friends are a bit more restrained when they are in European sectors of Wine Country.\u00a0 For one thing, many don\u2019t speak the languages and so are somewhat intimidated themselves.\u00a0 (English-speaking countries in Europe don\u2019t have wine worth discussion.\u00a0 Beer they do have and the folks there can be pretty snobbish about their bitters.)<\/p>\n

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For another thing, most Americans probably don\u2019t have the familiarity with the wines of Italy, France or Spain than they do with those of Napa Valley.\u00a0 So there\u2019s only so much lording it over others that they can get away with.\u00a0 Nonetheless, you don\u2019t want to be one of those people who gives Americans a bad name overseas.<\/p>\n