Oh man! -1
The pattern: He gets a new piece of knowledge and plays with it like a dog with a bone. Or an infant with a loaded handgun.
Note that it’s the same engraving technique that Rodenstock used on the “TJ” bottles.
I think “enthusiastic dicks” will cover most situations.
Yes, well done.
At a small Italian restaurant in Minneapolis (no longer in business), there was no wine list. When I asked for a wine list, the head server/“sommelier” replied “We talk about the wine.”
“So you have your inventory memorized? Including pricing? What do you have for Burgundy?”
“We don’t have any Burgundy.”
“There’s a bottle of Burgundy on that table over there.”
“They brought that with them.”
“Can I do that next time?”
“No. They are friends of the owner.”
“I’ll stick with water, thanks.”
enthusiasdicks?
SQN and pretension are pretty much the same thing. They seem like twins to me.
One day a friend ordered a 100 PP wine at a winebar.
The sommelier was excited, my friend told him to take a pour.
He filled one glass for himself, one for the owner of the bar and one for the guy who was sitting with the owner and brought them to their table before we got our wine poured.
The whole situation was so absurd, he let it happen.
But the sommelier gets to hear the story from time to time…
And here we go again.
“I don’t like what you like. Therefore you must be .”
pretty much
In the mid-1990’s time frame, I attended the MacArthur’s Cali Futures Barrel Tasting. The 1993 vintage was being featured. At the time, the California wine industry was being ravished by phylloxera, and I was curious about how the extensive replanting might affect wine quality and character. I discreetly asked each vintner about the age of their vines. Most were very forthcoming, and even seemed to relish a question they had not already answered 50 times that day. Phillip Togni obviously didn’t like my question. He handed me a sheet of paper and said with a sneer, “This is all you need to know about my vineyard.” I looked down at the paper, and it was a Parker review of the wine, enlarged to fill the sheet… 93/100 with a few lines of text. Prick.
I think that comments like “the last time I had 61 La Tâche” or “this was the best bottle I’ve ever had of 82 Pétrus” are really pretentious.
Alex R.
Seriously? That just sounds more like jealousy on your part. If someone is fortunate enough or rich enough to have had the 82 Pétrus on several occasions and this really was the best bottle so far, I say more power to them, and maybe call me next time you open another!
FWIW I have only had the 82 Pétrus once, but it was the best bottle of 82 Pétrus I’ve ever had! ![[berserker.gif]](/uploads/db3686/original/2X/8/8600bbd4810d342b8fbd4ffb62b4f0026275fd37.gif "berserker"){kind=small}
It couldn’t have been as good as the one I had, Ken
But I’m sure it was better than that bottle I haven’t had. Sigh.
“Not as good as insert wine here that I’ve had before.”
How is saying “04 Domaine X is not as good as the 05” pretentious?
I hosted the dinner portion of a progressive dinner last weekend. I put out a nice selection of wines, red and white. As the evening developed, the reds had come up to room temperature, too hot to show their best, so I put them on a thin layer of ice. I returned several minutes later to find a guest removing the red wine from the ice. She told me that she was doing me a favor, that nobody puts red wine on ice. I explained that I was just trying to bring the temp down a bit as the wines would show better. She said that red wine should be consumed at 75 degrees and not 1 degree cooler. I told her I disagreed and then she hit me with a condescending, maybe you didn’t know, but I’m from England.
One behavior we haven’t mentioned is, especially at a wine tasting or dinner, the incessant pointing out of a wine’s flaws: “Too much EA on this one” “O I just can’t get past the mercaptan issue” “The DMS here is just too distracting”
I’m a misdemeanor offender here and I’m trying to quit as it can interfere with others’ ability to enjoy a wine.