While we are defining terms, how about 'Hipster Wine' ?

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john McCarthy

john McCarthy
While we are settling in here, I was wondering if we might be able to define the term 'Hipster Wine'? Is it about the wine or the hipster? Is it a precarious balance between the two? Is it a conveniently vague term to discredit/insult someone without really saying anything? Who gets to decide if a wine is 'Hipster Wine' or just Hip? Can I call a wine 'Hipster Wine' and still maintain my smug sense of self-importance? How does a wine graduate from 'Hipster Wine' status to a wine with actual street credibility?

Could these guys make 'Hipster Wine':
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or do they have to look like this:
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How many squares on Hipster Bingo does it take to make you a 'Hipster':
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I think these are questions that deserve some answers.....
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Radikon used to be a hipster wine, but it was too easy to pronounce (and too difficult to drink more than a glass of). Now, I guess something like Vodopivec Vitovska qualifies as a hipster wine. Trockens are hipster wines, especially in the grosses gewachs format because (i) they cost twice as much as the non-GG trocken and (ii) they don't even say grosses gewachs on the label because if you're a hipster you should just know. Ironically, California wineries with velvet-rope mailing lists cannot be hipster wines, unless they are oxidized pinot grigio. Blaufrankisch is a good candidate for the next hipster wine because the secret cabal of hipster sommeliers that made gruner veltliner a sensation probably want to test just how far they can go. Alternatively, maybe someone will package a super-gruner in bottles that weigh as much as magnums.
 
I use the term "hipster" to describe any wine that other people who post on winedisorder like, but I do not understand.
 
originally posted by mlawton:
hipsterI use the term "hipster" to describe any wine that other people who post on winedisorder like, but I do not understand.
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I take exception to this as I sport my fauxhawk while drinking sans soufre Romorantin.
 
John Leland via Prentiss Riddle:
hip is a term of enlightenment, cultivated by slaves from the West African nations of Senegal and coastal Gambia ... Hip begins, then, as a subversive intelligence that outsiders developed under the eye of insiders.
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originally posted by Putnam Weekley:
John Leland via Prentiss Riddle:
hip is a term of enlightenment, cultivated by slaves from the West African nations of Senegal and coastal Gambia ... Hip begins, then, as a subversive intelligence that outsiders developed under the eye of insiders.
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That goes a long way in explaining the PBR's.
 
Being canonically non-hipster (although I was briefly a hippie in my youth), I could use a Cliff's Notes version outlining which wines are the Hipster Wines so that I don't accidently diminish someone's street cred (see, I told you non-hipster) by drinking one.
 
Hipster wines may be purchased at verre vole or auge. They are somewhat diluted by non-hipster wines particularly at auge, but you can more easily identify the non-hipster wines. The novice will probably have heard of those.
 
Hey guys! Carlos from Interpol was in my French class! Thanks for the memories.

Oh, and SFJoe... never again...

I only drink Bordeaux, anyway.
 
originally posted by john McCarthy:
While we are defining terms, how about 'Hipster Wine' ?While we are settling in here, I was wondering if we might be able to define the term 'Hipster Wine'?
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Essentially, what it comes down to is this: Clos du Tue-Boeuf. You might argue for le Pic Rat, say (in his day - in a spirit of Marc Bolan), or various others. But for the real thing - feet on the ground, hands in the dirt nobility... Not even Thierry Puzelat negociant. Clos du Tue-Boeuf. All others aspire.
 
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