(VinePair) - Are you worried that you might be turning into a little bit of a wine snob? Do your friends worry, before they bring a bottle over to your place, that it won’t meet your standards? Do you maybe get a little over-enthusiastic when it comes to the wines you love, at the expense of, well, anything else? Are you beginning to accrue the kind of reputation, when it comes to wine, that you never wanted or asked for?

If that’s the case, then I have some good news for you, which is that wine snobs are great! You just need to be the right kind of wine snob — the kind of person who makes people happy, rather than the kind of person who makes people feel inadequate and insecure.