Great article Seth. I am a qualified oenologist (enologist to you) and have been working with wine since 1968. I never cease to be amazed by the pretentious bullshit put up in the name of “wine expertise”.
The real issue is that this verbose pomposity works AGAINST the wine industry. It just serves to magnify and perpetuate…
Thank you for writing this. I enjoy wine but have never been sure how to “drink” it. Well, at least not to the point of experiencing the wine. I’ve tried to read on it and everything I found was so pretentious that I either couldn’t understand the jargon, or I ended up feeling that I had to put my nose so far in the air that I couldn’t see to finish…
