Is there a business that can seem snootier than the wine business? You know what I mean: that dreaded “wine snob” attitude that some shops seem to thrive on? Some clerk finds out that you aren’t conversant in, oh, let’s say the different soils of the right bank of the Dordogne River and he gives you “Are you sure you’re ready for a Bordeaux?” Give me a break! This is just so sad, because wine people whom I deal with, the grape growers, wine makers and importers I buy from are not like that at all! They’re the kind of people who you’d love to sit down and have a glass of wine with, and every one of them detests that phony “wine snob” Read more…