Today's Wiki "hint of the day" is something near and dear to my heart, appreciating wine. Lots of wine, in my case. How to acquire a taste? Sit your ass down and drink it till you like it, that's my advice, and Wiki agrees. Keep trying different types until you find one you like, it's all about the commitment.
Thinking back on my lifelong romance with wine, it all started as a child, as all true passions do. At Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter my parents treated us to a shot glass (with a graphic of a horse on it) of Mogan David or Manischewitz with the holiday dinner. Yep, alcoholic in training at a very tender age, I was raised to believe that wine tasted like Kool-Aid with a kick. Imagine my surprise when I came of drinking age and had my first glass of Chablis---yuck! That's what wine is supposed to taste like? No thanks, I'll have a Jack and coke.
Over the years my taste in wine changed. I started with ports but quickly moved on to full bodied reds, mainly Cabs and Merlots but later found my pallet moving on to lighter reds, particularly Pinot Noirs when I moved to just-north-of-Oregon-wine-country Portland. Last summer I started drinking even lighter reds, blushes and roses, because they are so yummy in hot weather but found as the fall approached---red wine season---I still wanted something lighter. This past winter I have been drinking Pinot Gris or even a Chardonnay in a pinch. And now even sweeter whites, like Moscats, are finding their way into my wine glass so it's just a hop, skip and jump before I'm drinking Rieslings and Gewürztraminers. Before you know it I'll probably go full circle and find myself back to good ol' Manischewitz----only in a glass slightly larger than a "horse glass jigger".
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4 comments:
I'm mostly offended by the whold "jack and coke" thing.
Gack!
I'll hook you up with some good whiskey some time.
I had wine with Sunday dinners from an early age. Just a little watered down jug wine...a hold over old world thing that survived in my family.
I give my kids tastes of whatever I'm drinking. It pisses my non-drinking spouse off. Bonus!
How can you call yourself a southern gentleman of quality and not like Jack?
Isn't "non-drinking spouse" an oximoron? I would imagine if one was married they'd HAVE to drink. But that's just me and I'll think on it over a glass of wine.
Well, it's certainly some kind of moron....
Was I ever "ungentlemanly" to you? It's just that my tastes, in whiskey, have become more refined.
For women, I still like you. :-)
So your tastes in women haven't become more refined, then, is that what you're saying? Expensive liquor but cheap women.
Sounds like a bumper sticker to me. Print 'em up, you'll make a fortune.
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