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...course is not about “trying to be a wine snob, it’s trying to know what the hell you are talking about,” says Donald M. Coates ’07, one of Conley’s students...
...Spencer B. Lazar ’07 says his reasons for taking the course “stem from a general skepticism about wine connoisseurs.” Years ago he read a New Yorker article questioning the ability of even the most trained connoisseurs to tell the difference between red and white wine under certain circumstances. “I had doubts of my own, and wanted to explore the contents of the article,” Lazar says...
...Wine is basically about storytelling, interesting anecdotes about a particular cultural item,” he says. “I’m interested in going through those stories, and being able to tell the more interesting ones...
...Conley began collecting wine more than 35 years ago and now keeps a modest private cellar—he calls it is his cave (the French term, pronounced cahv)—from which he chooses wines for himself and House events. Like many of Harvard’s wine lovers, he was eager and garrulous when talking about his passion for wine and the highlights of his cave, ranging from late 1960s Châteauneuf-du-Pape to a group of 1982 Firestone Vineyards, “gathering a lot of dust as they...
...Conley is by no means alone is his love of wine. “My good friend Lino Pertile, the master of Eliot, we talk about wines a lot. We pass judgment on what the host is offering at Masters’ meetings,” he said with a chuckle...