We had some very fine answers in our competition to find the perfect collective noun for a group of wine bores. You might recall that the best my confreres and I could come up with during the wine bores’ dinner that kicked off the initial discussion [see: Struggling to serve wine in the right order] was a ‘bunch’, a ‘pontification’ or a ‘slurring’ of wine bores. Readers more than outdid us.
My fellow judge, James Simpson MW, the managing director of Pol Roger (UK), and I had a merry chortle going through the answers although I have to say that some of the ruder ones (not for repetition in a family publication such as this) did rather cut to the quick. Surely no wine bore is that boring?
Six readers suggested a ‘berry’ of wine bores (droll but a bit obvious); four a ‘bevy’ (far too flattering and more suited to describe folk a touch more lissom and fragrant); four a ‘snore’ (we rather liked that); four a ‘sediment’ (that too); four a ‘plonker’ or ‘plonk’ (we didn’t like those two at all); two a ‘bloat’ (nor that one); two a ‘dreg’ (quite funny); two a ‘bouquet’ (liked that one a lot); two a ‘spittoon’ (nice) and two a ‘sozzle’ (hmm).
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