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Many people drink wine, but many... Sun Aug 20, 2006 13:56 pm  Many people drink wine, but many...
 

Many people drink wine, but many wine consumers know little about wine appreciation or wine and food pairing because they are intimidated or put off by the pretensions often associated with wine.

Could you please shed some light on the underlined part?

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Wine Sun Aug 20, 2006 14:06 pm  Wine
 

Hi Tom,

You asked about:

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because they are intimidated or put off by the pretensions often associated with wine.

People don't go in for drinking wine because they feel slightly scared or made to feel uncomfortable because there are people who like to show off (they are pretentious) and they talk about wine in detail in terms of year,vintage, flavour, bouquet (scent) of the wine and so on.

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Many people drink wine, but many... Sun Aug 20, 2006 19:38 pm  Many people drink wine, but many...
 

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know little about wine appreciation

One more question:

Does wine appreciation mean ability to appreciate something? Please see below:

1- He knows nothing about talent appreciation.
2- She knows everything about burger appreciation.

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Many people drink wine, but many... Sun Aug 20, 2006 19:46 pm  Many people drink wine, but many...
 

Tom wrote:
2- She knows everything about burger appreciation.

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Are you talking about hamburgers, Tom? Laughing
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Many people drink wine, but many... Sun Aug 20, 2006 19:49 pm  Many people drink wine, but many...
 

Yes, Amy.

So do we agree about my queries? Could we use appreciation like this?

Thanks

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Many people drink wine, but many... Sun Aug 20, 2006 20:09 pm  Many people drink wine, but many...
 

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Well there might be some people who would (such as the founders of McDonalds and Burger King Wink), but I'd say most people wouldn't.
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"Art appreciation" would be a typical collocation.
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