Ignorant Wine Drinkers

[Airborneguy]

Don't get me wrong, I do actually talk to people, but these types of unsolicited conversations - more specifically, statements - are definitely not welcome in my book.

 

[dantheman13]

My brother is a very successful and respected professional winemaker. There is a quote that he always says....."It takes a lot of great beer to make a little great wine". His employee break room has a kegerator full of Firestone Union Jack. Apparently he is respected enough in the beer world that he helped Firestone Walker make/blend their Anniversary releases. The wine and beer world are not, nor should they be, a "this or that" proposition.

That is the spirit that I think all alcoholic beverage drinkers should embrace.

 

[McBrewskie]

The guy was just trying to impress his girlfriend...he's SOOOOO cool.....SOOO sophisticated...world class traveller...

This, he probably thinks he know a lot more about wine than he does and spouts off to any and everyone. Probably the guy that ignores the sommelier to order something more expensive that isn't as good just to impress a girl.

 

[StMarcos]

....and in walks the Scotch drinker

 

[aerod1]

I like a lot of different types of nice beers...... but wine? It must come out of a box!!

 

[Yuri_Rage]

After he snubbed an initial attempt at education, I'd have done my best to live up to the negative stereotypes. Next up, a shandy...ew, who makes a cocktail out of beer?! Then the cheapest swill on tap for the rest of the night. I'd make it a point to get slightly inebriated and be louder than him. I don't even smoke, but I'd find a way to light up a cowboy killer 100 INSIDE the wine bar.

...then pay his tab on the way out. He'd never know what hit him.

 

[PorterIdontknowher]

I've been fortunate to not come across many wine snobs. But, I think that's due to the fact that Virginia is in an interesting situation with both a burgeoning craft beer community and a rapidly growing number of wineries. These two communities have grown up together and their consumers seem to have very similar mindsets regarding the products. In fact, I think the only wine snobs I've come across have been people who turn there noses up at Virginia wine.

I've got to agree here as another Virginia resident. Living in the Charlottesville area we have some pretty solid wineries, plus Starr Hill, Devil's Backbone, Wild Wolf, and Blue Mountain in the area...

My problem with some of the Virginia wineries isn't the quality, it is the price point. Or more, if I'm going to just pop open a bottle, about $15 is my limit... some of the local wineries have good wine, but asking $20+ for a bottle doesn't quite match what I can get from elsewhere. Other, smaller wineries have some wine I'm ready to buy and drink... (I had a homebrewed Wit, and followed it with a glass of the Horton Stonecastle White $9-12... a voignier blend this evening...) Burnley Vineyard is a real small vineyard with some very nice wines as well in the <$15 range.

Wine snobs vs. beer snobs... there are more of the former...but try not to be the latter. I'm a beer nerd. I like good beer, I can talk about good beer, but at my girlfriend's friend's house on Friday, I had a Labatt's Blue and a PBR. And enjoyed them.

 

[cmoon]

I think the problem (beyond some people just being jerks) is that there is an existing wine culture, but the beer culture is something of a comeuppance. Plenty of non-drinkers will take wine as civilized and beer as swill, just because the wine culture has been around for so long, and the only players on the market to represent the beer culture have been Anheuser Busch (thanks guys!) More people really need to be exposed Charles Bamforth.

 

[yummybeer]

depending on my mood, i would have told the idiot that i feel the same way about his wine as he does about my beer.
i do enjoy wine as much as i do beer, but i would have told him that just to see how he'd react.