mickblueeyes wrote:IJD" There are going to be non-connoisseurs and pseudo-connoisseurs everywhere. We are the minority. As such, I would dissuade us from categorically dismissing those that enjoy other spirits.
I will admit that I have been guilty of snobbery and pseudo-connoisseury of one sort or another for a significant part of my life.............intellectual, religious, scotch, cognac, bourbon........you name it.
However, a friend once told me that for most of us snobbery of one sort or another is a common and maybe necessary step toward maturity. I genuinely hope he is right. I fight that tendency in myself when I see it (or my wife sees it) and believe it to be a bad thing.
I also hope the English poet/mystic/philospher William Blake was right when he said (paraphrasing) 'the road of excess leads to wisdom'..............cause I have spent some time on that road too!