Sunday, July 12, 2009

THE WINE BORE 2


Maurice had a wine collection. Maurice was into hoarding. Maurice pontificated about it. In truth Maurice was boring.
Have you ever been on the receiving end of a (one-sided) discussion of a wine cellar and the treasures lying therein? Wine bores are good at telling everyone about the great wines that they have had or that they have in their cellar. Often though the wines in the cellar are 'not ready to drink yet' and the wines drunk no-one else seems to have been present to remember the occasion. A wine bore treats wines like a stamp collection- carefully looking at the label before putting the precious bottle back. If being hosted by a wine bore you are likely to be regaled with stories of the world's great wines whilst being offered a 'precocious little' Spanish or Chilean number that the host 'discovered. Keep me away from them please.

3 comments:

Richard (of RBB) said...

Don't you fit the 'wine bore' description?

THE WINE GUY said...

"Don't you fit the 'wine bore' description?"

- not yet but I could be. Check out any of the thousands of wine blogs out there and see just how boring I could yet be.

Richard (of RBB) said...

Don't be modest, The Wine Guy, you're pretty boring already.