The New Status Symbol

[Ross Massey]

For the oligarch in your life: a nice bottle of 2011 Houillon. Judging by the white wax it's the Chardonnay.

http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/09/status-survey-115-things-to-have-now/slideshow/28/

A helpful tidbit: "Instagramming it shows you’re in the cool kids’ club.”

 

[Jeff Grossman]

OMG.

 

[Keith Levenberg]

This is *EXACTLY* the way I would expect New York magazine to write about wine. Or anything else.

 

[MarkS]

A helpful tidbit: "Instagramming it shows you’re in the cool kids’ club.”

Only if your a sommelier bragging to other somms. Then you've got bragging rights.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
This is *EXACTLY* the way I would expect New York magazine to write about wine. Or anything else.

Though it is Justin Chearno, who is a great, legit guy. I imagine they asked him about a lot of things, and just chopped and pasted a thing that would suit their angle.

I also wonder about tone.

 

[Keith Levenberg]

I don't know him, but I have no trouble believing that, which is why I call out NY mag as the perp. This is the sort of thing they eat up like pigeons.