Foad's Current Experience With Wine

 Wine has always been something that I have seen but never gotten into myself because it seemed too diverse when compared to other alcoholic beverages. Other drinks are just far easier to get used to because you can drink them over and over again until you get accustomed to the flavors present. However, with wine, as we have discussed recently, it is almost impossible to get two similar wine bottles that taste exactly the same, and what this means for me is that I need to really know what kind of wine I like to drink which will require some trial and error, and about a year and a half ago I started that process. 

The wine tasting process all started when my friends and I started watching the bachelor and bachelorette every Monday as an ongoing tradition. It was during these episodes that we all decided that we need to choose a bottle of wine for each episode and finish the bottle of wine before the episode was over, so not knowing what kind of wine I liked had to start grabbing random bottles that I thought looked good. 

Name: Bay Bride Pinot Grigio Colombard

Varietal: Pinot Grigio 51%/Colombard 49%

Region: Bay Bridge

Country: USA

Year: 2006 

Price: $3.99

I will not lie, I was not a huge fan of Pinot Grigio and it kind of led me astray from wine because the experience was not good. It had this bitter aftertaste that I thought was the worst and I was sadly not able to finish it. Eventually, I was able to get over myself and start trying other wines again, and to my surprise, I actually enjoy Rose wines a lot more and it was these lighter ones that I did not like. If it was not for that first experience of trying something randomly, I would not know that I strongly dislike Pinot Grigio and actually like Rose. 

I am excited about this class because I hope to learn how to better choose wine for myself that I enjoy in a less painful way like my first experience. If I am able to understand why I dislike Pinot Grigio Colombard and enjoy Rose, then maybe I will be able to choose a wine that I like at a consistent rate. I also want to get into the wine and food experience as I have always heard about the combo of wine and cheese but have never tried it out for myself and am very excited to get working on some combinations that I think will go well together. Overall, am I very excited about this class and am ready to learn more about wine.