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Wine snobs

Imported wines cost two to three times more in India than in international markets

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Grover’s Vijay Amritraj Reserve Collection Red 2016 (Rs 1,450 in Bengaluru) has a pronounced aroma of berries and spice and a full-bodied mouthfeel and soft tannins

Alok Chandra
It’s well known that many people equate price with quality: the expensive wines have to be good and the inexpensive ones are definitely not.

But if one was to put a “not good” wine into a fancy bottle, most of the very same people would extol the wine’s virtues and quaff it happily.

That’s what a wine snob is: a pretentious wine drinker with little knowledge or understanding of wine, and who uses wine as a tool for social advancement rather than enjoy wine for its own sake.

This tendency repeatedly comes up when comparing Indian to imported wines. Imported