Wine snobbery

Likely from the beginning, wine was associated with higher levels of society

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Column: Wine snobbery 8-11-2021

While wine snobbery may be irritating, it certainly is nothing new. Some 2,800 years ago, the Greek poet Homer in The Iliad and The Odyssey used wine references to signal privilege. The higher in society in Homer’s day, the better wi…