oenophilia

I love that someone who uses the word "oenophilia" and then proceeds to flash a little dickless pedantry over a misused word in a blog comment has the audacity to call someone else pretentious.

Obama, Farrakhan, and how Hillary Clinton took the opening and then squandered it. Ann Althouse 2008

Just learned what "oenophilia" means -- love of wine.

Ben Casnocha: The Blog 2009

In 2008, Mr. Bastianich attained the ultimate fantasy of Italian oenophilia when he became a partner in Brandini, a winery in the holy region of Barolo in northwest Italy.

Discovering Italy's Wines With a Master Jay McInerney 2010

There is no better evocation of a native oenophilia 's first stirrings, for instance, than the Engels & Krudwig Wine Co.' s 1940s label proclaiming "American Grape Wine" — made in sultry Sandusky, Ohio — to be "bottled romance."

A Buffet Of Period Pieces ARAM BAKSHIAN JR. 2010

Your laughably pretentious oenophilia might almost convice us you were one of them, were it not for your ignorance of the distinction between "sleight" and "slight."

Obama, Farrakhan, and how Hillary Clinton took the opening and then squandered it. Ann Althouse 2008

Having evidenced unrivaled range and revived Jane Austen for a modern audience, the two-time Oscar winner — and star of Brideshead Revisited, out this month — ponders her thighs, oenophilia, and weightier matters. photograph by

Proust Questionnaire: Emma Thompson 2008

In fields from criminal law (where statistical projections of recidivism are taking discretion away from judges and parole boards) to oenophilia (where a formula involving temperature and rainfall is a better predictor of the quality of a vintage than the palates of the most vaunted experts), "intuitivists" are on the defensive against the Super Crunchers.

Era Of The Super Cruncher 2007

While it is my impression that organizations such as the Undergraduate Society of Fellows have begun to make an effort toward organizing events, when I was at Princeton, the only comparable events were occasional departmental dinners fueled by the oenophilia of one professor - a wonderful experience, but one that should not depend on students joining one department or the other.

The Daily Princetonian, 2010-04-20 2010

While it is my impression that organizations such as the Undergraduate Society of Fellows have begun to make an effort toward organizing events, when I was at Princeton, the only comparable events were occasional departmental dinners fueled by the oenophilia of one professor - a wonderful experience, but one that should not depend on students joining one department or the other.

The Daily Princetonian, 2010-04-20 2010

That pedagogical side comes out strongly in the book's second part, which gets to grips with the philosophical implications of oenophilia.

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