In this weekend edition, we take some gratuitous pot shots at wine snobbery. But not just any wine snobbery, Wall Street Journal wine snobbery. Big thanks to Tom Johnson at Louisville Juice for turning us on to this gem.
On the heels of an article sub-titled "Finding the right red for grouse-shooting season", the WSJ seeks to further ingratiate itself with readers with this piece on haute etiquette. Writer Lettie Teague enters the elitist fray writing about her instruction of an unsuspecting dinner companion on the right way to hold a wine glass: "Holding the glass by the bowl just didn’t look very nice. It’s much more elegant to hold it by the stem."
Grouse shooting? Spotting glass-holding delinquents as sport? What's next? Whites for yachting? Appropriate reds to bring when a guest on someone's Gulfstream? What ever happened to Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher's accessible casualness?
Even funnier than the absurdity of the 'How to Hold a Glass of Wine' articles are the comments in response. If nothing else, they certainly make for more entertaining reading. Some favorites:
"I prefer to hold the glass by the neck of the bottle. That way the paper bag doesn’t slip off when you take a slug!" Vonroach
"My Ripple goes down just fine with a single powerful inhale on a garden hose. The only time that it has to get warm is immediately before I relieve myself." MacDaddyWatch
And perhaps the one that sums it up best, "Next up, how to hold your knife whilst spreading the Grey Poupon." Tom
Brilliant.
Grouse shooting? Spotting glass-holding delinquents as sport? What's next? Whites for yachting? Appropriate reds to bring when a guest on someone's Gulfstream? What ever happened to Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher's accessible casualness?
Even funnier than the absurdity of the 'How to Hold a Glass of Wine' articles are the comments in response. If nothing else, they certainly make for more entertaining reading. Some favorites:
"I prefer to hold the glass by the neck of the bottle. That way the paper bag doesn’t slip off when you take a slug!" Vonroach
"My Ripple goes down just fine with a single powerful inhale on a garden hose. The only time that it has to get warm is immediately before I relieve myself." MacDaddyWatch
And perhaps the one that sums it up best, "Next up, how to hold your knife whilst spreading the Grey Poupon." Tom
Brilliant.