Snob Busters
The Wine Snob's Dictionary

(Broadway Books)
January 21, 2009

Authors David Kamp and David Lynch hail from the humility capital of the world, New York City. What better place to compile a funny, tongue-in-cheek, lexicon of wine showboating.

No storyline leads you from cover to cover of The Wine Snob's Dictionary. So reserve a minute every now and then to sip, one entry at a time, the terms, phrases, people and places that make up the lingo of today's wine world. Be careful though, recovery from the ensuing belly laughs may take longer and the risk of guzzling page after page of irreverent zingers like this one is high:

"Spoofalated. Scornful term invented by old-line winemakers to describe any wine so bombastic and overmanipulated by man-usually via excessive oak usage, but sometimes by way of overripeness or MICRO-OXYGENATION-that it lacks any discernible VARIETAL character. I couldn't bring myself to tell Dad that the Chilean wine he so proudly gets by the case from Costco is a ghastly, overbearing, spoofalated grape beverage."

Kamp and Lynch seek to distinguish ordinary wine lovers from obsessives who prefer arcane knowledge of wine to drinking it. Decide if they succeed and have fun testing whether your own zest has crossed the line of wine snobbery.

The Wine Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Oenological Knowledge
Authors: David Kamp and David Lynch
Publisher: Broadway Books
www.SnobSite.com

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