The 'wine snob' boogeyman

In his column "The language of wine snobbery," Joel Stein writes: "I miss the days when we made fun of wine snobs. ... Now wine snobs are too boring to make fun of." His argument appears to be hinged on the contention that something about "wine-speak" is inherently snobbish.

By Arthur Z. Przebinda

June 18, 2008