Word: winespeak
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...charge of the wine-teaching program at the Napa Valley, Calif., campus of the Culinary Institute of America, introduces wine to a different audience: a Mexican cooking school, couples on first dates in restaurants, shoppers at a cheese store. Instead of delivering lectures and lapsing into winespeak, she relies on the spontaneous reactions of her guests to get her message across. When she does talk about wine, she uses unconventional, even coquettish language: a Cabernet is "like Sean Connery, masculine and meaty"; a Sauvignon Blanc is "the bad girl of white wine, with mismatched earrings and stiletto heels...
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