Though I've never had the experience of blogging before, it seems like a great way to start off the habit would be to write about something grown up. How adult of me to write about something so cultured and sophisticated. I really haven't had too much experience with wine; I'm more of a Martini or Cosmo drinker myself (extra sophisticated) mainly because my favorite part about drinking alcohol is holding a really fancy martini or champagne glass and pretending I'm in a movie. However, when I 'grow up' I do want to be one of those people who has a glass or two of wine with dinner most nights. Maybe it's because I've heard of the health benefits, or maybe it's because I will think it tastes good with my food, but I think the main reason I want to be one of those people is because it just feels cool.
As for my personal education of wine so far, I'm seriously lacking. The first time I tasted wine was when I was much younger and asked one of my parents for a sip of theirs. I'm pretty sure I hated it and was disappointed that something so pretty and classy tasted so much like dirt - not that I knew too much about what dirt tasted like. What I did know was that, like beer, wine was an acquired taste. I never really understood why people acquire gross tastes in the first place, but since everyone else did it and peer pressure is pretty much a thing, I knew I was going to have to try at some point. In all honesty, I never had wine before I was 21 other than a few sips while my parents were present - which is completely legal. Once I did turn 21 I had maybe one glass of red wine to realize it still isn't sweet. Thankfully when I'm around people in the know I can get advice about which wine is sweet and girly so that I don't have to pretend to enjoy a glass of a pine flavored cough syrup just to seem cool.
I've been wine tasting only once with my family and I thought I would know from then on which types of wine were good and which weren't. Of course I liked the really sweet dessert wines but I didn't particularly enjoy the dinner wines. I did however drink
a lot of each since each 'taste' I was given was about half a glass and I felt wasteful to not finish. I think we can all understand from this that it turned out to be an interesting experience.
So far the only glasses of wine I've liked most have been forms of white wine and also some ros
és that I could never identify unless someone informed me. Strangely, I really like the taste of red wine now when I start drinking it but as I continue it seems to get more and more bitter so I stop. I'd like to think this is my body's way of slowing me down so I don't go overboard. Even though I like the way red wine looks better, I usually stick to the sweeter and fluffier white stuff. The only red wine I've tried that has been sweet was the wine I made in my microbiology class by adding sugar to grape juice and letting it ferment. That was beyond gross.
I'm hoping that with this semester with Geography of Wine to help me I can appreciate wine more and learn to love it in the way I've always dreamed. I want to be able to go into Kroger and know which wines will work with my style instead of just trying to remember what brands I've possibly seen before. I want to go out to a fancy restaurant and be able to pick from the billions of choices and then talk about the origins of the grapes for each wine and any other obnoxious knowledge I have accumulated to the unlucky people stuck eating with me. But most of all, I want to find the perfect type of wine for me so I can look, act, and otherwise be the definition of cool while I sit and sip my incredibly classy drink.
