Are you a wine snob( glass only-red with meat -white with fish etc )or just enjoy the wine (plastic cups -red?!
Are you a wine snob( glass only-red with meat -white with fish etc )or just enjoy the wine (plastic cups -red?
wine with everything etc )
Answers:
I can be a wine snob.
What I am snobby about is not the pairing. The "red with red meat and white with white meat" does not hold up. A true wine snob would able to pair food much better, choosing a very specific dish to a very specific wine of a specific vintage. While I love certain wine with certain type of food, I am not that picky.
What I am snobby about is the glassware and the quality of wine. When I host my wine tasting dinner, all of the veteran attendees bring their own wine glasses, and we have some very nice wine glasses such as Reidel and Spiegalo. We do not compromise on our wine glasses because a well made wine glass is supposed to bring out the flavor of the wine. From the way the slope of the glass is made and the shape and the size to fit the swirling, a glass can make a wine tasting experience that much better. Honestly, if you don't believe me, open a nice bottle of wine (at least $50) and pour one glass of nice glass and one glass of cheap plastic cup, and see if you can tell the difference.
As for the quality of the wine, my personal belief is that "when you pay peanut, you get peanut". A wine that is at least of certain price range means that the vineyard had made the effort of cultivating the vines in proper method and the winery had made a decent effort of using quality material to make wine. An expensive wine does not guarantee good wine, but if you line up 10 bottles of expensive wines and 10 bottles of cheap wines in a blind tasting, you surely will have more preference for the expensive stuff. I am snobby when someone pours me a glass of cheaply made wine that has high acidic taste and no complexity. It is like drinking a glass of grape juice with rubbing alcohol. That I am very snobbish about.
Rest of the time, I am easy going, adventurous wine drinker ready to try something new, just for the heck of it.