10 signs that you’ve been writing about wine too long
by Wine Curmudgeon Posted On
How do you know you’ve been writing about wine for too long? When you notice any of these 10 things:
1. Auto-complete on your phone fills in words like sauvignon and terroir when you’re sending a text.
2. You send text messages with words like sauvignon and terroir.
3. You know more about the brands that PR people are trying to get you to write about than the PR people do.
4. The PR people who used to try to get you to write about those brands are retired and living in Maine. Or Napa. Or Burgundy.
5. You realize you’re not the youngest person judging at a wine competition – and you haven’t been for several years.
6. Younger people want to judge with you at wine competitions because you have more experience than they do.
7. You remember when people drank white zinfandel – lots and lots of white zinfandel – instead of rose.
8. Eight retailers where you bought wine have gone out of business. And three of them were big local chains.
9. You need to check much more often to make sure you’re not writing the same blog post that you wrote a year ago.
10. The same crappy wines get the same 92-point scores, and you still can’t figure out why.
Photo courtesy of the Falstaff Wild website, using a Creative Commons license
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~ the humor is often more important than the wine. Let the unadulterated words, sentences, paragraphs continuously flow. We read your blog not for the alcohol alone.
too funny and true too….
10 signs a person has been reading about wine to long:
1. When you notices the same exact words are used to define all wine profiles no matter the varietal– ad nauseam/et al.
2. Bloggers are caught recycling posts every few years.
3. Reported points of a wine are directly correlated to the amount the winery spends on advertising in said publications or newsletters doing the ratings.
4. Politics is taking over the wine industry and county supervisors chose winners and losers.
5.While reading in the library/reading room/you get the point-I keep reading the same articles expecting something new to jump out at me and never does.
6. Your cursor slides over the “unsubscribe ” button but never consummates the dastardly deed.
7. Your friends feel your obsession with published points ratings of wine is ruining your sensibilities.
8. You have become a certified wine snob and friends no longer want to associate with you. Snobs in wine are a lower life form than an ameba.
9. You have developed a snob approach to wine but really have a beer pocketbook.
10. To much reading of wine writings shows just how one dimensional a person can become.
But the doctor tells me to drink 2 glass of wine a day-she said nothing about the quality of volume.