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I've been in tasting rooms where wine geek speak prevails,
> malo, ph levels, awards from the Calabasses County Fair
That's the sort of thing I meant by "everything I've heard about it." There are different kinds of wine geeks; most of the ones that I know don't talk about anything like the cliché tasting-room chatter illustrated above. [Which IMO is one thing wrong with many tasting rooms and similar events -- another is tasters at a sample table who get their samples and then stall there, boorishly blocking the line.] But still, there are always wine geeks. (I got into a conversation about wine details with another contributor here once, at a dinner at a large table. Another diner gently, and very helpfully, reminded me that we were getting geeky, and brought us back to the here and now of the dinner.)
-- Max