"§ Lauksna §" > wrote in message
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> I'm relatively new to wine drinking and would like to now how one becomes
> efficient at tasting, judging, and avoiding looking like a peasant fool at
> social functions. How or where do you learn what is good and what is not?
Is
> it personal preference or just professional snobbery ?
>
> Just curious. Thanks in advance.

I can give you two tips:
(1) Drink what tastes and smells good to you, from a wine glass that's
never more than half full.

(2) Hold the glass by the stem - never the globe. Wine glasses have stems
to keep body heat away from the wine. Holding the glass by the globe
defeats the purpose of the stem, makes unsightly smears on the glass and
marks you as a rube.

Tom S