Pinot envy

The Observer's Polly Vernon says, men, mind your tipple: "Men spoil wine. They take it too seriously. They want to master it. They want to dress it up in mystery and tradition, and imbue it with intrinsic maleness so that they can be superior about it. Men reach a certain age—34 or so—and stop thinking they know how to play the guitar, or how to DJ, and start thinking instead that they ‘know’ wine. They stop default-ordering the House option in restaurants, and start asking for ‘the list’. They start thinking stuff is corked. They start believing that creating a big fat scene about the suspected corking, will prove how jolly Alpha and male they are. They hold forth at length about how they despise Pinot Grigio because it ‘doesn’t taste of anything much’." (Plus a top 10 "Shut Up!" at the link.)