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The 8 Wrong Ways To Drink, Serve And Enjoy Wine

W. Blake Gray
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3 min read
Is there a "right" way to drink wine? I'm not sure. But there are wrong ways. Some might want to deny this because we don't want to be exposed as wine snobs. But the prevailing American culture around wine is far more prescriptive than that. The food media constantly tells

Old guys: Don’t like the wine list? Eat somewhere else!

W. Blake Gray
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5 min read
Update: Read Charles Olken's response: "Wine List Snobbism: Real or Made Up by 'Old Guys'?"  "Hipster sommeliers." "Dim somms." Oh no! Arrogant youngsters are forcing helpless diners to consume weird wines! Save us from this horrible trend! This is one of the top memes for ancient wine writers this summer. It's also

New Restaurant Offers the Cure for Wine List Ills

Evan Dawson
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4 min read
There is a maddening chicken-and-egg problem with most restaurant wine lists: Are wine lists stupid because customers don’t know much about wine, or are customers uneducated about wine because restaurant wine lists are stupid? I realize that most wine drinkers don’t spend all that much time looking over restaurant lists,