Dave Barry on Wine
January 17th, 2008 4:27 PM
Considering the fact that I was fifteen when Dave Barry wrote the column Sour Grapes and Mud, I’m definitely not surprised I haven’t seen it before! It seems that wine culture hasn’t really changed at all. In fact, it may have gotten worse. Here are some of my favorite quotes from the column:
When you see a winery that you like, you go inside for wine-related activities, which are mainly 1) tasting wine, and 2) trying to adopt thoughtful facial expressions so as to appear as though you have some clue as to what you are tasting.
The wine is then bottled and transported to the Pretentious Phrase Room, where professional wine snots perform the most critical part of the whole operation: thinking of ways to make fermented grape juice sound more complex than nuclear physics.
I wanted to shake them and shout, “What’s WRONG with you!? When I was your age, I was drinking Sunshine Premium brand beer (motto: ‘Made From Ingredients’) at $2.39 a CASE!”
Dave, you have got to write an update!
