Am I am a wine snob!

[Duffa]

I'm in the SQ F lounge at MEL.
The red on offer is a Pirathon Shiraz - I pour a glass and marvel at the fruit-driven nose and full bodied complexity.
Get to my seat and Google it
$19.99 from Nick's !!! Suddenly it tastes different.
If I hadn't known what it cost I would have raved about it. Now I know that it costs less than 90% of the wines I buy.
What should I do?






Ha ha ....... I'm going to order two cases - it is a lovely drop.

 

[burmans]

I'm in the SQ F lounge at MEL.
The red on offer is a Pirathon Shiraz - I pour a glass and marvel at the fruit-driven nose and full bodied complexity.
Get to my seat and Google it
$19.99 from Nick's !!! Suddenly it tastes different.
If I hadn't known what it cost I would have raved about it. Now I know that it costs less than 90% of the wines I buy.
What should I do?






Ha ha ....... I'm going to order two cases - it is a lovely drop.

Glad you came to your senses, price isn't what determines how good a wine is, it's what it tastes like.

PS, and I agree, Pirathon is a wine that punches well above its weight, it does have impeccable pedigree though!

 

[opusman]

Yes you are?

 

[penegal]

Status anxiety?

For me, it is less about the price tag and more about the wine itself. We can all fall into the trap of thinking "cheap = bad" and "expensive = good".

And let's face it, I can't afford to drink $3,000 bottles of wine every day.

 

[UP4014]

With every ''expensive" bottle I buy I get one or two for less than $20 each and try them.

There are many decent wines for less than $20 it's just a matter of trial and error.

When I find a good one for less than $20 I make sure to tell everyone I know, they are the ones to support.

I'm no wine snob and drink the ones I like and I want them to be the cheaper ones, I feel more satisifed afterward.

Matt

 

[burmans]

I'm no wine snob and drink the ones I like and I want them to be the cheaper ones, I feel more satisifed afterward.

So true, with the expensive wines (and I do try a few) its very rare that that experience exceeds expectations.

With some good advice and sharing of recommendations I find I get this feeling of satisfaction much more often in the < $20 and $20 - $30 brackets.

And we do after all drink wine with the expectation of feeling good after we have drunk it!

 

[JohnK]

And let's face it, I can't afford to drink $3,000 bottles of wine every day.

Do you ever buy $3,000 bottles of wine?

 

[penegal]

Do you ever buy $3,000 bottles of wine?

Not very often.

The way it usually works is that I bring my intelligent conversation and *they* provide the expensive wine

 

[penegal]

FWIW, probably the best bottle of wine I have ever drunk had a price sticker for $62 on it... Naturally inflation may have had some impact since it was purchased.

 

[bismarck]

Always good fun doing the old blind taste test.

Did one at my boss' house last year.....10 wines ranging from a $40 to >$600 (incl. Grange) all aged properly for 5-15 years. No-one managed to pick which was the most expensive, and my favourite was Bin 389.

Other crackers were Lindemans Limestone Ridge and Yarra Yering No. 2.

FWIW, of the 10 of us there, no-one selected the Grange as their favourite. Just goes to show price isn't everything.

 

[JohnK]

Not very often.

The way it usually works is that I bring my intelligent conversation and *they* provide the expensive wine

But you have spent $3,000 on a bottle of wine?