For when confronted by an actual cork sniffer....


Flawed experiment. He only used inexpensive bottles - the top end there is about $17? Sorry, but that's an inexpensive bottle of wine, and the real threshold in my experience is around $30 plus or minus a buck or two. To me that's the range where you definitely know where your money went. There are outliers of course (one of my favorite everyday bottles right now retails for $7, but the next vintage may suck) but by and large there is a huge chasm between a cheap and expensive bottle. With the caveat: know what you like! Experiment to find out what styles/regions/grapes you prefer and then you can really begin to appreciate the difference.
 
Flawed experiment. He only used inexpensive bottles - the top end there is about $17? Sorry, but that's an inexpensive bottle of wine, and the real threshold in my experience is around $30 plus or minus a buck or two. To me that's the range where you definitely know where your money went. There are outliers of course (one of my favorite everyday bottles right now retails for $7, but the next vintage may suck) but by and large there is a huge chasm between a cheap and expensive bottle. With the caveat: know what you like! Experiment to find out what styles/regions/grapes you prefer and then you can really begin to appreciate the difference.
I am definitely no connoisseur of wine but I can tell you what beer I like!
 
I do enjoy wine, but I'm not a wine snob. I never got a taste for beer...

I got the nickname Chubbles at Penn State. We had keggers on our dorm floor. We each chipped in 5.00 to get it started and got unlimited beer for the year. I never had beer in quantity before. During my first kegger, I drank 5 very large beers in about 20 minutes. A new guy to the floor introduced himself to me. I tried to say my name but mispronounced it as Chubbles (rhymes with troubles). From then on everyone called me Chubbles. I actually had a reputation as a party animal (not me at all). I'm the type that always had nicknames. Chubbles is not the worst. I went to every kegger, but never drank extremely again.
 
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