(Gasp) Pretentious Wine Behavior You Have Observed

[Mark_Golodetz]

Vincent Price and Peter Lorre:

PETER LORRE vs. VINCENT PRICE

[TomHill]

@jrozes

Life is too short to quaff anything but fine Champan-ya. Each bubble like the story of one’s life…

Jonathan,
What’s your attachment w/ GeneralGroves??
Tom

[Frank_Drew]

@Rob Weaver

She said that red wine should be consumed at 75 degrees… and then she hit me with a condescending, maybe you didn’t know, but I’m from England.

Ha! How does she know what 75 degrees feels like? It gets that warm there maybe once a decade, and they certainly don’t heat their houses anywhere near that.

[Scott_Brunson]

@Todd F r e n c h

Really tough to comment on this, though I’m fascinated to read the stories posted already. Wine is so EASILY tied to pretentiousness, and the definition varies broadly, as to someone like my wife (and I’m guessing several other spouses of Berserkers) the mere mention of terminology like animate’ or ‘VA’ smacks of pretentiousness. To the vast majority of the wine drinking public, you drink it because it tastes good, and talking about vintage, producer, cork, label q quality, or storage is pretentious.

That said, the 6 bottles of '45 Latour that I had were significantly better than the 6 bottles Dusty had.

I finished second to Dusty in the pissing contest and only got 3 bottles of 82 Petrus

[Corey_N]

I once told Francois Adouze that he really needed to step it up and stop drinking all that young shit. 1928 Y’quem? Pul-leeze. Anything that wasn’t aged by the Greeks in amphora is babykilling.

[Chris_Blum]

Not really pretentious(?) but I was in a group conversation at a party where a guy (who just loved the sound of his own voice) was talking about wines he liked. I can’t remember the exact words, but it was clear that he kept referring to Cheval Blanc as a white wine. At the time I thought “hmm, maybe they make a white Bordeaux” so I kept my mouth shut.

[Ken_V]

@Alex Rychlewski

Ken,

Nothing to do with jealousy.

The reason people say such things is to impress and be pretentious.

The point here is not just that they can afford to drink fabulously expensive wines, but that they have enjoyed the same one one several occasions. Of course, this is said in a falsely-offhand way.
One upsmanship.
Pissing contest - alas, an aspect that is always in the background when people talk about the world’s rarest wines.

Best regards,
Alex R.

I can certainly see how this could be said in a pretentious way, but I have also been with people who have had many great wines on many occasions and do have something to say about the wine that is not pretentious, but rather genuine experience and love of wine.

[Anton_D]

[Chris_D1]

^ nice

[Chris_Blum]

Those are awesome.

[Dusty_Gillson]

@Ken V

@Alex Rychlewski

Ken,

Nothing to do with jealousy.

The reason people say such things is to impress and be pretentious.

The point here is not just that they can afford to drink fabulously expensive wines, but that they have enjoyed the same one one several occasions. Of course, this is said in a falsely-offhand way.
One upsmanship.
Pissing contest - alas, an aspect that is always in the background when people talk about the world’s rarest wines.

Best regards,
Alex R.

I can certainly see how this could be said in a pretentious way, but I have also been with people who have had many great wines on many occasions and do have something to say about the wine that is not pretentious, but rather genuine experience and love of wine.

To me, the difference may lie mostly in the context of the notes and/or the history of the commenter. The people who bother me are those who I consider to have ‘jumped the line,’ meaning that they never drank the cheap stuff and either had no interest before or have always only bought and drank the “best” in the world wines. For me to truly value your opinion on an 82’ Petrus, I have to know that you have a good level of experience with unclassified Bordeaux, moderate classified bottlings, upper level right bank stuff, and the like. If you never touched wine until you could afford Petrus and that’s all you are interested in, I tune out.

[Neal.Mollen]

Fantastic Anton

[jrozes]

@TomHill

Jonathan,
What’s your attachment w/ GeneralGroves??
Tom

Nuclear weapons science and history is a longstanding interest of mine. The photo just captures the “not amused” sentiment I often find myself expressing at work (animated feature films).

Are you ITB?

[TomHill]

@Anton D

Trivia question here: Does anyone know who that guy depicted here is???
Tom

[TomHill]

@jrozes

@TomHill

Jonathan,
What’s your attachment w/ GeneralGroves??
Tom

Nuclear weapons science and history is a longstanding interest of mine. The photo just captures the “not amused” sentiment I often find myself expressing at work (animated feature films).
Are you ITB?

Yup…definitely ITB.
I’m a big fan of the history of the ManhattanProject. Oppenheimer got most of the glory, but I think Grove’s contributions were just as important.
I still have a couple of friends here who were originals on the ManhattanProject. But most have gone on to that great TestSite in the sky.
Tom

[Ken_V]

@TomHill

Trivia question here: Does anyone know who that guy depicted here is???
Tom

No, but I’m quite sure I’ve met him.

[Ken_V]

@Dusty Gillson

To me, the difference may lie mostly in the context of the notes and/or the history of the commenter. The people who bother me are those who I consider to have ‘jumped the line,’ meaning that they never drank the cheap stuff and either had no interest before or have always only bought and drank the “best” in the world wines. For me to truly value your opinion on an 82’ Petrus, I have to know that you have a good level of experience with unclassified Bordeaux, moderate classified bottlings, upper level right bank stuff, and the like. If you never touched wine until you could afford Petrus and that’s all you are interested in, I tune out.

I can certainly appreciate that distinction.

[Neal.Mollen]

@Ken V

@TomHill

Trivia question here: Does anyone know who that guy depicted here is???
Tom

No, but I’m quite sure I’ve met him.

Bill Klapp?

[Lewis_Dawson]

Marvin Overton?

[Anton_D]

@TomHill

Trivia question here: Does anyone know who that guy depicted here is???

Tom

Wilfred Van Gorp?

Philip Seymour Hoffman?

He whose 100 point scale name shall not be spoken?