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Friends of good wines - as opposed to wine snobs - what is the difference?

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For me I can say: I prefer wine - but I also drink beer.

And: A am a friend of good wines, but I am not a wine snob.

About the difference between a friend of good wines and a wine snob we can talk later here perhaps. :)
 
IMHO, here's the difference:

Good wines.

For one party, it's all about the wine, for the other, it's only about them.
 
For me I can say: I prefer wine - but I also drink beer.

And: A am a friend of good wines, but I am not a wine snob.

About the difference between a friend of good wines and a wine snob we can talk later here perhaps. :)
The difference between a wine snob and friends of good wine is if the wines are affordable to the person being spoken to.
I find this in all aspects of life. People who can't afford better things typically interpet everyone who has what they can't as a snob or arrogant.
 
The difference between a wine snob and friends of good wine is if the wines are affordable to the person being spoken to.
I find this in all aspects of life. People who can't afford better things typically interpet everyone who has what they can't as a snob or arrogant.
Not true.
Expensive wines may be good wines - but not always so.
 
Wine snobs like to deliver hard verdicts about grape varieties and declare this grape or that grape as "un-drinkable".
They generalize their own impression.
 
Now the Beaujolais Nouveau is a good example.
Friends of good wines will be interested in it.

Wine Snobs will bleet like sheep again and again this stupid line:
"Beaujolais Nouveau is an over-priced plonk, and the French do not touch it!"

Thereby saying THREE stupid and un-true things in one line.
 
Someone once said that the reason for learning wine is to be able to drink what you like without paying a premium.

Anyone can buy a good wine for $300/bottle. The trick is to find a wine you like as much for $35.
 
It may be possible to find a drinkable wine for less than $35 but I doubt you would find one you like as much as the $300 wine for that price.
 
I doubt you would find one you like as much as the $300 wine for that price.
I very much doubt that I would like ANY wine for the perverse price of 300 US-Dollars.
And I am sure that I would never ever buy such a perverse-ly over-priced wine.
 
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