Do women have a different relationship with wine to men? I feel quite strongly that — as consumers, at least — they do. In fact, in wine terms, I would actively dislike being a man. Wine joins cars and suiting as a heavily freighted social signifier. Society expects men to know about wine and thinks worse of them if they commit vinous faux pas. Women, on the other hand, are not expected to know anything about wine — witness most waiters’ automatic offer of the preserve taste to the man in the party.
女性與葡萄酒的關係，是否跟男性與葡萄酒的關係不同？我頗有這番感覺——至少作爲一個消費者而言。其實，就葡萄酒而言，我肯定不會喜歡成爲一個男性。葡萄酒跟汽車和西裝一樣，是重要的社會身份標誌。社會期待男性懂葡萄酒，如果他們對葡萄酒的認知出了什麼差錯，社會對他們的看法就打了折扣。另一方面，沒人期待女性對葡萄酒有任何瞭解——例如在宴會上，大部分侍者只是主動問男賓要不要酒。
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