It's time to talk about a topic near and dear to my heart. Alcohol. But more specifically wine. My personal experience with wines started mostly because my dad likes to consider himself a wine connoisseur so our family almost always has wine with dinner. I still can't tell whether he likes tasting wine or talking about it more but luckily for me he actually knows what he's talking about. I try to pick up a few things in what originally sounded like another language but as I've started drinking more wine I've found that talking wine pretty much is another language.
When I am home with my parents we pretty much always have a glass (aka bottles) of wine with dinner and throughout the evening. When I'm at school I don't really drink nice wine much but hopefully this Geography of wines class will help change that. I've been lucky enough to try some incredible wines (courtesy of dad) and have been fortunate enough to travel to Europe on vacations and was able to try many wines in the countries they were made and thus found what I like (currently) but I know that's going to change.
My personal preferences in wine is I lean towards red wines, particularly Malbec and Cabernet. I really enjoy full bodied wines with deeper fruit flavors such as plum and berries. I have tried a good deal of white wines as well but do not enjoy the sweeter flavors that are in white wines. That's not to say I don't like white wines. I like smoother wines and really like white wines that have more earthy tastes so I tend to stay away from sweeter wines personally.
I like to think I know a decent amount about wine for a 22 year old guy, but I'm hoping to be able to talk wine with the best of them by the end of this semester. There are a few things that I am really interested in learning about from this class: a more refined understanding about different varieties of wine and what taste profiles are generally associated with them, what wines particular regions are known for, and what goes into the actual making of different types of wine.
