Being a wine geek isn’t just about knowing grape varieties or collecting bottles; it’s a way of looking at the world. You begin planning meals around wine instead of the other way around, judging restaurants by their wine lists, and seeing everyday life through a wine-colored lens.
It’s slightly ridiculous, completely relatable, and all part of the fun. If you’ve ever caught yourself doing any of these seven things, you’re in good company.
7 Things You Do When You’re a Wine Geek
1. You choose a wine for dinner before you decide
what food to pair with it.
2. You judge a restaurant by its wine list.
3. You start drinking everything out of a wine glass.
4. You start to value things in terms of bottles of wine.
5. Being thin-skinned isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
6. You see aging through the lifecycle of a bottle of wine.
7. When you try to communicate, everything comes out as “somm speak”.
