I was just thinking... I don't have any wine-education degrees... nothing in agriculture, nothing in the culinary arts, no experience working in a wine store, wine warehouse, picking grapes (except at my Grandma's house)... I have helped a friend make beer....
No. Instead I've spent a small fortune (fortune meaning a lot of money for a middle-class guy who's now unemployed for the moment...) on exploring wines.... making lots of mistakes along the way, finding some amazing fermented grape juice, acting like I knew what I was doing, trying to impress friends, etc etc...
Now, I've just come to the conclusion that there are two credentials that qualifies me to speak intelligently about wine - I like the stuff and I've enjoyed enough wine over the last 20 years to have a good conversation about wine with just about anyone with any degree of wine 'knowledge' and continually learn in the process.
I've also decided that as much as me or anyone else 'knows' about wine, like I've mentioned in many earlier blogs, wine knowledge is very subjective... wine appreciation is personal, and wine consumption is fun and over consumption can get you buzzed and dry your tongue out to the point where you can't tell what you're tasting anyway.
Cheers!
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