Wine Geekiness

Gus Clemens On Wine It comes with the wine writer territory: people encounter me at the grocery store, in elevators, on the street, and ask me about wine. “As a wine geek…” they begin their question. Hmmm. Wine geek? The original meaning of geek was a “highly intelligent, but introverted person.” When the term entered wine nomenclator, geek also suggested someone who championed unfamiliar…