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Wine: It's the People's Drink

The New York Times column from October fifteenth, twenty twenty-six, urges readers to see wine as a way for communities to gather; the snobs were not consulted.

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  • First reported by The New York Times: “Wine: It’s the People’s Drink”.
  • Covered on BBN on Friday, October 16, 2026, at 6:44 PM ET on BBN Tonight, by Dale Bearman, Hank Ledger and Vera Bullock.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOn October fifteenth, twenty twenty-six, The New York Times argued that wine should stop being an emblem of snobbery and become a way for community to come together.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorMy take is that every neighborhood needs a wine night where nobody knows anything and everybody grows. I'm talking folding chairs and one shared corkscrew.

  3. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHot. Nobody has ever been intimidated by a folding chair.

  4. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorMy take is that the community will gather, someone will say the word notes, and by the second bottle there will be a feud that lasts until the end of the world.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHot. That is how every block party ends.

  6. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHot? He called my take hot for being a chair.

  7. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorYour verdict was a mercy, Vera. Mine was a prophecy.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFair.

  9. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFinal take: wine is the people's drink, and the people should embrace it without worrying about what the wine snobs think—though I will judge you silently for your choices.

  10. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHank, that is the snobbiest thing anyone has said.

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