Wine with Leslie: Don't be a wine snob, this week's bottles are fun and flavourful

Evolving from foolish snobbery

Writing this column has forced me to relax about wine and to open my mind.

Don't you hate wine snobs? By snob I mean someone that turns their nose up at a wine because it doesn’t fit their narrow view of what a wine should taste like, or when and how it should be served. I hate them mostly because I suspect I used to be one.

Writing this column has forced me to relax about wine and to open my mind. I hated natural wine at first because all I could see were ‘faults’ such as volatile acidity (vinegar aromas) or brett (barnyard aromas). I wasn’t willing to admit that many a posh Italian wine has VA and many an aged Bordeaux reeks of brett.