Why do I care about Wine?

For most my life, wine was the only alcohol anyone ever drank...ever. My family drinks wine at every dinner and it is just a staple. Not in a bad way, just that is what we drink and what my parents have always drank. I did not really understand what real alcohol was until I was older. Wine was the only alcohol. My mom only drinks white, my dad only drinks red. That is the way I was raised. 

Since I have always grown up around wine, it was the first real alocholic drink I ever had and since my family only drinks good wine...my wine taste buds are pretty sensitive to bad wine. My sister has probably the best taste of anyone in my family, I swear she can figure out a good wine just by the label. My mom does not drink sweet wine at all, the dryer the better (which for the longest time confused me as a child. It's liquid..how can it dry). My dad likes intense, strong reds. Cabs or Merlots. I just recently learned that Suarez is solid.  

This is why I really was excited to take Professor Boyer's class on wine. My family is so into wine and yet we sometimes only know really what we like and what we don't. Understanding what makes a good wine, what makes a bad wine, how is it made exactly? How does that impact the taste? How does region change the taste? Is there a way to tell a good wine just by the label? How can I be a broke college kid and still drink good wine? 

That's the big key, I'm a broke college kid, who basically sticks to her drink downtown and whatever my parents are drinking at dinner. Every once in a while I try to pair with dinner, aka steak or red meat-red, everything else-white. That's when I feel sophisticated. I cannot tell a good wine or a bad wine...until I drink it. I cannot tell you what it means when you say a wine has a subtle touch of "name classy sounding nature thing here." But somehow I can sometimes taste the oakey and oh yeah thats some kid of fruit in here that's making this too sweet. 

So here's my adventure with wine, because what else is there to do your last semester of college than to drink? Just kidding. To me liquor is what you drink when you are at a bar, beer is what you drink when you are eating a burger pizza or at any sports function and wine is what people drink at dinner. That means, wine is what I need to learn the most about by the time I'm a real adult...and that is coming up really quickly. 

Geography of Wine is my last stepping stone to being an adult. The rest of it will just come naturally...right? 

I may not know much about wine, but I do know, good Sangria goes a long way