Comments on: Wine & Me http://www.gifttree.com/gifts-blog/wine-me.html Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:45:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Wine Shop Clerk http://www.gifttree.com/gifts-blog/wine-me.html/comment-page-1#comment-3320 Wine Shop Clerk Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:30:25 +0000 http://www.gifttree.com/gifts-blog/?p=1355#comment-3320 Yikes! My story is similar to yours or at least we have a lot in common. I've lived in Northern California's wine country for over 30 years. As a college student in the early 1970s I would visit the wineries with friends because it was a fun experience, not because I appreciated the fine wines. In fact, I thought it was "just agriculture land" and not much action unless a slow tractor is your speed. A jug wine was the way to go. The choices were simple too: Burgundy, Chablis and Rose. To go first class we got a craffe. Fast forward. When two buck Chuck was introduced I bought a whole case. Wow, wine in a real bottle with a cork too. Then I graduated to white zin. After I swore I would never drink it again I changed. My son had grown up and we visited Napa Valley with a different point of view, plus my budget was bigger. I loved all of it and could not come back often enough. This was the way I liked wine. At the same time my food preferences expanded greatly and I'm still experimenting with great wines from all over the map. Yikes! My story is similar to yours or at least we have a lot in common. I’ve lived in Northern California’s wine country for over 30 years. As a college student in the early 1970s I would visit the wineries with friends because it was a fun experience, not because I appreciated the fine wines. In fact, I thought it was “just agriculture land” and not much action unless a slow tractor is your speed.

A jug wine was the way to go. The choices were simple too: Burgundy, Chablis and Rose. To go first class we got a craffe. Fast forward. When two buck Chuck was introduced I bought a whole case. Wow, wine in a real bottle with a cork too. Then I graduated to white zin. After I swore I would never drink it again I changed.

My son had grown up and we visited Napa Valley with a different point of view, plus my budget was bigger. I loved all of it and could not come back often enough. This was the way I liked wine. At the same time my food preferences expanded greatly and I’m still experimenting with great wines from all over the map.

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