CDD: Are you a wine connoisseur?

[drssouth]

(How do you define yourself?)

Or a oenophile?
Or a wine geek?
Or a wine lover?
Or a wino?
OR ...

I feel quite uncomfortable with the term wine connoisseur..it conjures up a stuffy old man with a tarnished tastevin around his neck and an attitude that won't quit!!

What term do you prefer?

 

[Chris Coad]

Oenophilic-American.

 

[JasonA]

Bore
Jerk
Asshole

 

[Arjun Mendiratta]

I go by Joe the Drinker.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

No good answer exists to this sandpit of a question.

Though some of us go by "lush."

That can almost sound like a compliment! If only one were a lawn.

 

[VLM]

According to my aunt, who is in AA, I am an alcoholic.

According to my friends who don't share my wine habit, I'm strange and obsessive.

Compared to some people for whom wine is an avocation, I'm positively sane.

 

[Oliver McCrum]

Describing oneself as a connoisseur is, as Kingsley Amis used to say, 'a useful wanker-detector.'

 

[Dan Donahue]

Student

 

[MLipton]

'Drunkard' is my preferred term, though if someone else describes me as a winegeek I don't respond with physical violence.

Mark Lipton

 

[Christian Miller (CMM)]

Just pronounce it Kon-Noy-Sir. It takes the edge off.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

That's like my theory that fewer people would smoke if it were called "smorking."

 

[JasonA]

originally posted by Christian Miller (CMM):
Just pronounce it Kon-Noy-Sir. It takes the edge off.

I believe that should be Koi-Na-Sir

 

[Brad Kane]

You forgot cork dork.

 

[Florida Jim]

originally posted by Brad Kane:
You forgot cork dork.

With intent.
Macho-pedantic-enophile has a nice ring.
Best, Jim

 

[mlawton]

whinie (pronounced whiney)

 

[Graeme Gee]

I think the polite Australian term for someone with a longstanding interest in wine is "a pisspot from way back"...
Graeme

 

[Bill Averett]

I was at a dinner party, and the girlfriend of a friend I was talking to asked me, "Are you a Somalier?" My girlfriend whispered in her ear, "He's just passionate."

 

[robert ames]

i like connie sewer.

 

[Putnam Weekley]

Double Over Compensating Tannin-suspicious Oeno-Raskolnikov

But "The Doctor" is taken, so, just "Who."

 

[Levi Dalton]

A buddy of mine heard the following exchange go down a few years back...

Guest at a restaurant: Do you have a Sommelier here?

Waitress in response: We don't have any Somalians working here right now, but we do have a few Nigerians and one guy from Bangladesh.

Same dude told me this story...

Guest at a restaurant: We want a bottle of white chardonnay tonight.

Waiter: Oh good, because we just ran out of the red.