 A speaker of English metaphorically transfers him- or herself into the social structure of the "wine world" that is encoded by the "oinoglossia" of elite critics using a very particular "technical" terminology.The use of "wine talk" or similar "fine-cheeses talk", "perfume talk", "Hegelian-dialectics talk", "particle-physics talk", "DNA-sequencing talk", "semiotics talk" etc.confers upon an individual an identity-by-visible-consumption indexical of a certain macro-sociological elite identity and is, as such, an instance of higher-order indexicality.