First Blog Assignment!

1/25/2015


       My current experience with wine is far from sophisticated. Besides that occasionally bag-slap of Franzia or flavor intensive slug of Carlo Rossi, I have yet to dive into the world of Vino.  Being half Italian, I grew up around friends and family making and drinking wine. My Italian grandpa made his own brew in his garage and would drink a glass of home brewed red with every meal.  I  never really saw his process, but I do know he would get grapes from a friend and start the whole process.  He only made red and rarely deviated from type of grapes he purchased, but what ever he did, everyone seemed to loved it and he didn't travel any where unless he had a few bottles to give to his friends and family. One particular memory I can recall is that he would always slice peaches and put them in his wine glass when he had a glass with dinner, I'm going to have to try that.

     From my minimal experience with wine, I feel as though I have taken a liking to red wines, but only because I feel as though that is what I'm typically around. Just this Christmas eve tried a white, whose name I cannot recall, but found that it went very well with the fish my family and I were eating.  Throughout the semester I hope to expose my palate to various new white wines, while learning about the various types and how they were named.  As of now, I know very minimal about white wines, and just recently learned you have to chill them ones opened?! Although I see my self as a wine rookie, I am very excited to learn about it so maybe I can sound pretty sophisticated one day.

    While in this class, I hope to learn more about wine naming and why wines are named the way they are. I want to learn which wines come from which areas and why those grapes are grown there and not in other places.  Along with the naming, I hope to learn what wines go with different food.  I am sure between my own upcoming experiences and class lectures, I will begin to get an idea which wines compliment which foods. Overall I'm pumped to learn more about wine and the culture behind it and soon be able to use some of my wine smarts in the future as I begin to enter the work field.