Porthead - use it or lose it?

[David Co]

I have being used the term porthead for a little while and have been debating removing it from my vernacular. Was wondering if anyone has any terms they use to describe their love of wine generally and/or love of port specifically?

[Glenn E.]

I call us Port Geeks, or occasionally Port Nerds. Nerd has more of an academic connotation, though, so I prefer Port Geek.

[Eric Menchen]

I'm in a local non-Port-specific tasting group. We occasionally refer to ourselves as the Winos.

[Mads Barnkob]

Port collector seems to be the description that works best in Denmark, I am however better known as do-not-drink-red-wine-at-all.

[Roger L.]

We occasionally refer to ourselves as the Winos.

This appears, then, to be one of those "separated by a common language" words

To the English - "Wino" is a monstrously derogative term - to quote one of the online dictionaries - and this is pretty much what I have in my head when I hear this word - "a person who drinks excessive amounts of cheap wine or other alcohol, especially one who is homeless."

[Glenn E.]

Port collector seems to be the description that works best in Denmark, I am however better known as do-not-drink-red-wine-at-all.

Me too! Port and an occasional sweet white (Sauternes, Riesling BA or TBA, Tokaji, etc).

[Glenn E.]

We occasionally refer to ourselves as the Winos.

This appears, then, to be one of those "separated by a common language" words

To the English - "Wino" is a monstrously derogative term - to quote one of the online dictionaries - and this is pretty much what I have in my head when I hear this word - "a person who drinks excessive amounts of cheap wine or other alcohol, especially one who is homeless."

No, that's what it means here, too.

[Eric Menchen]

To the English - "Wino" is a monstrously derogative term - to quote one of the online dictionaries - and this is pretty much what I have in my head when I hear this word - "a person who drinks excessive amounts of cheap wine or other alcohol, especially one who is homeless."

No, that's what it means here, too.

We use the term in jest. Also, we often taste things blind, with the bottles wrapped up in a brown paper bags, further fitting the stereotype--although I doubt the homeless guy on the street is drinking Unico out of his bag.

[Al B.]

We use the term in jest. Also, we often taste things blind, with the bottles wrapped up in a brown paper bags, further fitting the stereotype--although I doubt the homeless guy on the street is drinking Unico out of his bag.

You could be stereotyping again Eric. You never know what's in the bag. That's the purpose of a blind tasting. The poor guy on the street is just making sure he has no label bias.

[Andy Velebil]

I call us Port Geeks, or occasionally Port Nerds. Nerd has more of an academic connotation, though, so I prefer Port Geek.

I'm academic. I count my bottles and check the label grammar every time I pickup a new Port shipment.