Of course there is. As former and present smokers may recall, there is a division between plain and mentholated filters, and between filtered and unfiltered cigarettes, and within unfiltered cigarettes, between smooth smokes and the 'strong' ones. These progressions are well-defined and well-recognised, and the way to death ends with what used to be a Charminar; there was nothing stronger, and you couldn't smoke the other stuff once you were on Charminars. Even brain-dead idiots could make out the difference betwee, say, Wills Filters and Charminars. So why not in other areas?
This whole thing is quite a phony controversy, worth talking about only because of the phony experts who get undue attention. There is undoubtedly clear and visible difference and distinction between different types and varieties of wine. If people are able to distinguish between single-origin products like cigarettes (leaving aside the different leaves and their aroma) and grain whiskies, why should they not be able to distinguish multiple-grape products, produced specifically to taste different from other similar products? The mere fact that some idiots put other idiots on a pedestal has nothing to do with this basic fact of being able to make out what I like and what I don't, which, as has been rightly said, is available even in children over 6 months. ________________________________ From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <sur...@hserus.net> To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Sent: Friday, 11 November 2011, 6:47 Subject: Re: [silk] Query on wines.... and snobbery That does explain why people tend to only smoke wills, or gold flake kings or ... and a wills smoker wouldn't dream of smoking gold flake. There's a paanwallah I used to know in hyd who had an uncanny knack of spotting people new to his shop as wills, goldflake, charminar etc smokers. I guess wine is a more complex tasting product than tobacco (and outside cheap and mass produced brands, you have quite a lot of people grading expensive tobacco on virginian or turkish, how dark its roasted etc) ------Original Message------ From: ss Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus....@lists.hserus.net To: silklist@lists.hserus.net ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Query on wines.... and snobbery Sent: Nov 11, 2011 06:41 On Thursday 10 Nov 2011 11:14:46 pm Indrajit Gupta wrote: > Frankly, I think we are hugely overdoing the wine snobbery bit; if we can > distinguish between cigarette brands and their smokes, or between > different brands of blended whiskey, what is the big deal in being able to > distinguish between different types of wine? > :D Objection, your honour. If you sit in a dining room and say you can tell the difference between Charminar and Benson & Hedges, most people would give you credit for being gifted like a circus clown. But if you pronounce funny sounding French names and say you can close your eyes and say what tastes good and what does not, (a skill that is avaialble to all children after the age of 6 months) people act as if you are a king. It is completely artificial. Completely fraudulent. And a huge laugh. I would not give it teh aura it is being given. shiv -- srs (blackberry)
