JM Hirsch wrote that rare is the dictionary that entertains (especially after age 10, when you’ve looked up all the dirty words). David Kamp and David Lynch’s The Wine Snob’s Dictionary is an exception. It not only will leave you laughing, but might teach you something along the way.

 The book is an effort to demystify what Kamp and Lynch consider the impenetrable language of the wine elite. It’s a straightforward A to Z guide of the people, places and terms of the wine world delivered with deadpan humor.

 The definition for ”Food-friendly,” for example: ‘Olive-branch term used by Snobs when they’re in the magnanimous mood to engage non-Snobs. Usually denotes a well-made but `simple’ wine that matches up easily with whatever some polo-shirted weekend grillmeister is cooking up out back.”

Read this dictionary as you would a book and you’ll come away more wine-fluent. Just don’t let it go to your head and turn you into a wine snob. 

Source: Miami Herald