Your world-weary nihilism is appealing, but I don’t buy it. Your core premise is flawed: perhaps
you drink to get drunk, but that’s not true of everyone. Heck, I don’t think it’s true of
most people, other than alcoholics. It’s not true for me. I can’t remember the last time I was drunk.
(Yes, that’s a great straight line. Let it pass.)
Moreover, it’s obvious that different drinks taste different. My wife loves vodka, hates whiskey. I like whisky, not fond of vodka. We both adore Crabbie’s hard ginger ale, which is an objectively terrible beverage (“glucose wine”) made palatable with copious amounts of sugar and ginger. I’ve got a case of it in my living room. We’re not exactly high-brow.
Sure, there’s a lot of pretentiousness in the wine world. There’s still wines I enjoy, and wines I don’t. (And sugar monstrosities I’ll even admit drinking.) I’m not in it to get drunk. And that’s why I don’t buy your nihilism.
(Yes, that’s a great straight line. Let it pass.)
Moreover, it’s obvious that different drinks taste different. My wife loves vodka, hates whiskey. I like whisky, not fond of vodka. We both adore Crabbie’s hard ginger ale, which is an objectively terrible beverage (“glucose wine”) made palatable with copious amounts of sugar and ginger. I’ve got a case of it in my living room. We’re not exactly high-brow.
Sure, there’s a lot of pretentiousness in the wine world. There’s still wines I enjoy, and wines I don’t. (And sugar monstrosities I’ll even admit drinking.) I’m not in it to get drunk. And that’s why I don’t buy your nihilism.