Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of wineology.
Matthew McKinnon from Unique Wines, purveyor of premium wines, will be visiting Uptown Art and instructing an introductory wine-ology class.
2015 February 5, The Bellingham Herald, section “Take 5”, page 223 more examples
And that was a memorable party. There were champagne bars all over the place — in the lobbies, in the pool area, and in private suites. They estimated about 3,000 sippers, which is a lot of bubble-water hospitality, in anybody’s wine-ology.
1959 October 25, The Miami News, Miami, Fla., page 11E“‘No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new,’” said Sicily, “‘for he sayeth, The old is better.’”[…]“My memory’s just as good as in my teens. I never dreamt I’d remember that wine-ology parable.”
1991, Cathie Pelletier, The Weight of Winter, page 113Ash cautioned wine and food fans to ignore “smelliers,” his less-than-kind term for pompous wine snobs who intentionally intimidate those without a degree in wine-ology.
2003 March 27, Dee Hobsbawn-Smith, “John Ash: Out of the classroom, Into the fire”, in Calgary Herald, page E7
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