This says your favorite wine about you
When I order wine (especially when I'm surrounded by connoisseurs), I always try to hide my order in a cough. “A cough cough cough Chardonnay cough cough please.” Among connoisseurs, Chardonnay is the Canei of white wine. An easy, sweet, syrupy, fatty wine that you could also call the perfect beginner's wine. A dear colleague even has the ABC rule: Anything But Chardonnay. Often I try to justify it by saying that this is a nice wine ‘for during the day’, but that makes my overall reputation very shaky.
Until I stumbled upon a study on Beautify.nl where I read that Chardonnay drinkers are ‘social and have the motto: ‘work hard, play hard’.’ They were also ‘hard to miss at a drink and at parties they are the last to go home.’ I believe this is quite accurate when it comes to me. They went even further: ‘If Chardonnay is your favorite drink, you also like to make your own plans. You don't care that Chardonnay has a bad reputation among real wine lovers. You just love it.’
I completely identify with this. In fact, I will no longer hide that cowardly cough when ordering. It will be loud and clear: ‘Do you have a Chardonnay please?’ I immediately became curious about what they had to say about the other types of wine.
Sauvignon Blanc
According to the website, Sauvignon Blanc drinkers love good food and enjoy visiting all the new restaurants in town. Sophisticated is a word that suits them. They don't just buy any piece of clothing they like, but prefer quality. I know right away, with the Sauvignon drinker I feel like a bit of an easy, shopaholic loser. But who cares, we order a bottle each, correction: a glass.
Pinot Grigio
According to Beautify, the Pinot Grigio drinker loves culture and is also spiritually inclined. And oh yes, that person is a hopeless romantic who, when he/she likes someone, goes all in right away. I find it a bit far-fetched to attribute all these character traits to drinking a type of wine, but since my beloved is a Pinot Grigio user, I take it all for granted.
Sweet white wine
Okay, there is a step worse than Chardonnay and that is sweet white wine. That is also drunk by people who order white Martini with a straight face and have a bottle of Canei in the fridge. I believe that the sweet white wine drinkers have fortunately not penetrated our generation, but there are still some old aunts to be found (those types who wear colorful leather patchwork jackets and make you happy with a glass of junk). As a character indication, I read: ‘You are a loving person and always see the good in people. You are also nostalgic. You like to hold on to habits you already have. You prefer to stay in your comfort zone. But that's not a bad thing at all. You already have exactly what you want and why would you change that?’. I find it a bit much. Before you know it, someone in your vicinity is spooning a advocaat.
Rosé
Rosé is such an always-good drink that you mainly drink on the boat or during a picnic and that everyone also likes. Still, I think it also shows a moderately developed wine taste if you only drink rosé. I can say that because I am that easy Chardonnay slurper. According to the psychological wine approach, rosé is the ideal drink for people who can't choose. Because they would find it difficult to make choices, they simply don't do it. Because why couldn't you go out on Friday and host your in-laws on Saturday morning? Why couldn't you go to a birthday first and then to another party? I don't know, but that multiple rosé drinker... Let's just say I see it as my task to at least get them to Chardonnay.
Prosecco
A piece of cake for the psychologist. Prosecco people love parties and believe that life should be celebrated. They are not snobs (otherwise they would have opened a bottle of real bubbles), but they are sociable. I would say: fill the glasses.
