For the past several years I've been enjoying at least one
bottle of wine per week. I really do love wine and food
from Italy, France, Germany, and other countries as well.
And who among us can reject a bargain? But I also hate wine
and many aspects of the wine scene. Let me explain my top
ten reasons for this love-hate relationship. Previous
articles discussed the unconscionable expense, the
embarrassing lack of knowledge, no wine cellar, and I can't
get the ... bottle opened. This article discusses the
insomnia that seems an inevitable part of my wine
experience.
I can't help it. Drinking wine tends to keep me up at
night, or more precisely wakes me up in the middle of the
night. I'm very careful not to overdo the wine tasting and
the imbibing. I usually limit the wine to dinner, even when
I'm not driving. But I still find myself all bright-eyed
and bushy tailed around four in the morning, especially if
I have an early start the next morning. Usually I drift off
to sleep just in time for the alarm to ring. I know a
partial solution to this problem, spit out the wine. But I
wasn't raised to spit, especially not in public and not to
waste things - as if fine wine were a mere thing. Of
course, in our house, buying a fine wine would have been
considered the ultimate waste. But that's another story.
While spitting is an option when tasting wine, the way I
look at it, spitting and eating really don't go together.
Perhaps I should take advantage of my insomnia and finally
learn the Bordeaux classifications of 1855, that still rule
more than one hundred fifty years later. If those
classifications don't put you to sleep, nothing will. Many
connoisseurs say that you can't be a true wine lover if you
don't know them - wine snobs are the subject of another
article. On the other hand, these fancy, schmanzy
classifications aren't everything. Do you remember the top
of the line French red Chateau Petrus costing $600 or more
that I mentioned in a previous article? Well Chateau Petrus
is not part of the Bordeaux classifications of 1855 or any
other special classifications. And that's no joke.
Here are the other reasons that I hate wine, to be explored
shortly: Food problems, Wine snobs, Those smells and those
tastes, Those colors, Home brew, One more problem and yes,
The Solution.
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Levi Reiss has authored or co-authored ten books on
computers and the Internet, but between you and me, he
prefers drinking fine German or other wine, accompanied by
the right foods and the right people. He teaches classes in
computers at an Ontario French-language community college.
Check out his global wine website is
http://www.theworldwidewine.com with a new weekly column
reviewing $10 wines.
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