Reddit’s r/Wine subreddit is one of the web’s best places to discuss and learn about wine. While there are dozens of popular wine forums on the web, nearly all gravitate to either the novice end of the spectrum or the expert end. r/Wine treads a nice middle ground, with interesting conversations and useful feedback & info for novices.

So What Scored Best This Year?

What else? A meme. Ron Swanson in the hardware liquor store. As with the most commented on post below, simplifying things in a crude manner, and boasting about being a jerk, will bring out helpful commenters explaining to you why you’re wrong. As the top commenter in the thread, ScumbagBambi writes, “I sometimes get customers like this. Don’t be this guy.”

While r/Wine is home to interesting discussions as well as a massive guide for new wine drinkers, it’s clear that the simpler things are what will win you the most upvotes. While the top 30 scoring posts did manage to cover a broad swath of topics, they fell into a few broad categories (see below). The similarity of the top scoring posts is not reflective of what you find on the subreddit on a daily basis.

Breaking Down 2013’s Top 30 Scoring Posts:

Our Categories:

Note: Data captured at 8PM EST, Dec 31, 2013! We noted the age of the posts. Learn why here.

If you’re wondering, some of us at VinePair have been longtime readers – fine, lurkers – of r/Wine for the past year or so (and Reddit since pre-Digg Exodus), but since we started VinePair we finally jumped in a couple of weeks ago.

The Raw Data