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December 2008 ArchivesThere’s still time to get a copy of The Wine Snob’s Dictionary (nicely written up in USA Today) as a last-minute holiday gift. But at Snob HQ we’re looking to the future. Having exposed the snobby underbellies of Rock, Film, Food, and Wine, we’re contemplating applying the template to sports (e.g. “The Pro Football Snob’s Dictionary,” short versions of which actually appeared in Vanity Fair in 2004 and 2005) and/or race, religion, and ethnicity (e.g., the as-yet-unwritten “Black Snob’s Dictionary,” “Jewish Snob’s Dictionary” and “Irish-American Snob’s Dictionary”). In every area of cultural and social inquiry, there is a deep seam of snobbery that is waiting to be tapped and exploited. Let us know what you’d like to read next, including Snob’s Dictionaries not proposed above. December 19, 2008 More Declamations »
...that is, until we get our act together to sell our own line (which will eventually happen). The design above is available, along with similarly cheeky offerings, from Diesel Sweeties. December 05, 2008 More Rock Snobbery »
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UC-Davis. Branch of the University of California that, since shortly after the repeal of Prohibition, has been the home of the foremost American academic institution devoted to the making and study of wine, the Department of Viticulture and Enology (V&E in Snob shorthand). Long derided by Snobs, especially of the TERROIR-ist variety, for promulgating a scientific, machine-age, high-yield approach to winemaking that resulted in the California jug-wine boom of the midcentury, UC-Davis has more recently become a Snob-admired haven for wonky progressivists such as the professor who created the WINE AROMA WHEEL. As such, the V&E department is now handsomely endowed by the Mondavi family, the Wine Spectator, and other major wine players. Read more from the Wine Snob's Dictionary » 
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