My boss, who pretentiously likes to be called by his initials, DB, considers himself to be a wine buff. To the rest of humanity, he is a wine bore.
He is a world class bore, an Olympic Gold medal winner certainty for the Long Bore Event. Even his name is boring. Literally! Derek Boring, (hence DB). The rest of us call him Deadly Boring.
DB can pontificate about a glass of wine for hours and, like all deadly bores, considers himself to be erudite and entertaining, suffused with precious gems of oenology (the study of wine to you and me) that the rest of the world cannot wait to hear. He only ever drank vintage Chateau-bottled wines and (claimed) he would rather have gone without rather than sully his precious palate with anything from Australia, Chile, or the U.S., however good they migh
