Comments on: This World is Full of Crashing (Wine) Bores

By: Joe Roberts, CSW

Joe Roberts, CSW — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:04:00 +0000

Great point Morton – some of the ‘wine snob’ criticism is deserved, otherwise it wouldn’t carry such a negative (and easily recognizable) perception.

Having said that – I’ve known many, may sports fans (baseball and otherwise) who do follow teams by jumping on the latest bandwagon – and I’d argue that blindly following Parker wine scores isn’t much different.

By: Morton Leslie

Morton Leslie — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:25:00 +0000

I know a lot of baseball fans but they have never forced their baseball knowledge on me at the dinner table. I have never met one that called himself a Master of Baseball and insisted on a M.B. after his signature. I have never met a baseball fan who picked his favorite players or favorite team based on the opinion of a baseball critic. Or bragged that his team had the critics highest rated score. A baseball fan will watch a tee ball game, little league, women’s softball, go to a losing double A minor league game just as happily as they do to the majors. And not a single one would get hot under the collar if someone made fun of their enthusiasm. They’d have a good laugh and go back to the game.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:19:00 +0000

Oh no! Not another Morrisey fan!

Thank you for the very kind words Joe!

Frankly, responding to Steins piece seemed so simple to do do that I was surprised nobody had beat me to it.

By: Robbin G

Robbin G — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:03:00 +0000

Yep, we’ve got to work on that book… :-)

By: Classic Wines

Classic Wines — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:03:00 +0000

Thanks for the links dude, I had a read at both the original article and the response.

I hope Joel was expecting this kind of blowback. Any time you off-handedly insult something many people take seriously, there is bound to be a slew of informed people raising their eyebrows at you.

If his goal was to ruffle some feathers, I think he was modestly successful. If it was to make a comprehensive argument, I think he fell far short.