wine snobbery
Grape-based elitism
Wine snobbery is pretentious expertise about wine, especially when used to make others feel unsophisticated.
The wine snob insists on particular vintages, critiques pairings, and deploys vocabulary like tannins and terroir to establish superiority.
The term is almost always pejorative: His wine snobbery ruined dinner for everyone.
- sommelierTrained wine service professional
- pretentiousFalsely grand or important
- bouquetArranged cluster of blooms
- terroirGeography's influence on taste
- old worldEvoking earlier times
turned up nose · vintage · swirl · tannins · palate · connoisseur · oaky · cellar · decant · cork · aroma · nose · finish · legs · château · appellation · sniff · refined
- tastebitter, salty, taste, sour, sweet
- pretentiousnesspretentious, pretentiousness, pretension, pompous, pomposity
pretension and elitism
wine snobberyunpretentiousness
Absence of showiness
egalitarianism · anti-elitism · populism · humility · inverted snobbery
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