My Experience with Wine

    Up to this point in my life, my experience with wine is very limited.  This comes as a shock to me, growing up in a house where wine was frequently the drink of choice for my mom and a vast majority of other family members.  I can only recall roughly six times where I was drinking wine in my life thus far, and honestly wine has not been my favorite drink, which is mainly the reason I wanted to get into this class.  Of the wines I have had, I am not sure exactly of the names, but I do know that I prefer white wine over red wine.  Something about the dryness of red wine just does not sit well with me for whatever reason.  

    Some of my different experiences with wine include two separate wine tastings, one of which being at a winery, and then every other time was just having a sporadic glass.  The first time I ever had wine was one of these tastings where they brough out six different wines, three white wines and three red wines.  This is where I learned I prefer mainly white wine.  Regardless of my current view on wine, the experience I had doing the tasting at the winery was very cool because of the overall atmosphere of everyone around me and the nice views.  It was at this winery where I tried a very sweet white wine which has been my favorite so far.  The winery I went to was Chateau Morrisette in Floyd, Virginia.  

    Now, getting into what I want to learn from this class.  Kind of like I touched on in the first paragraph, I really just want to learn wine.  Everything about it, how to drink it, how to talk about it, and hopefully how to like it.  I truly do think I will enjoy wine once I expand my horizons a little bit, which I am looking forward to doing throughout this class.  It was mentioned in the intro video that one of the key educational points of wine is being able to speak the language of wine.  I think that applies to me, as graduation is coming up and I know wine is a sophisticated drink, so being able to have high level conversations about wine could definitely be beneficial not only for personal relationships but also in a business sense.  With all that being said, I am extremely excited to dive into this class and expand my palette.  

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