There’s a great deal of snobbery associated with wine — everyone has, at some time, had to endure that know-it-all who carries on about the “right” way to taste a wine, and about how the wines he (it almost is always a he) quaffed were so “right”.
Actually, I would categorise people involved in wine into several segments, in ascending degree of being afflicted with the wine mania.
The Wine Geek: He compulsively swirls the wine after pouring, even at an informal dinner with friends, sticks his nose right into the glass as if diving into the deep, and tastes making loud

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