Types of Wine Drinkers Wine is a Grocery Wine is part of your life in the same way as toilet paper, coffee or bread. ... Wine Geek You are a wine min-maxer: minimum expense, maximum experience. ... Wine Snob You spare no expense with your wine habit and your obsession makes you look like a snob. ... I am a Geek for sure.
Sorry, Lon, not everyone loves wine like you do. Bud Light, Bloody Mary or a good stout margarita is for us. Although, my wife does like a glass of champagne on NYE. We still have part of a bottle in our frig. Have no idea when she will drink the rest.
I have had friends who enjoyed wine. For all the drinking I did, I never got into it. I was really a beer person myself. Living in Central Virginia, I am surrounded by some very successful vineyards...a very strange thing to see for a guy who has lived in the state his entire life. Wineries are a recent thing here. Even Trump has a vineyard not far from me. A friend's husband took classes to become a sommelier. Interesting stuff.
Have you ever taken classes? What astonishes me about there being vineyards here is we get real winters with temps that are routinely below freezing and that sometimes approach zero. My pastor has a smallish vineyard and he lost all his grapes when a late frost hit last year. You could tell it really hurt him financially. I don't know how any of these guys survive here long-term.
Having lived in Napa, California for a number of years I was able to visit most all the wineries in the Napa Valley. I buy my wine on line from a few of them Our local university Fresno State has it's own winery and graduates a number of potential wine makers. Fresno and the central valley of California grow many acres of grapes.
Probably 2014 or so; the Winery in Hot Springs Arkansas while on a camping trip. Love their muscadine wine.
Fall 2019 I visited a winery just a few miles from me. I don't drink much wine, but when I do it is generally a Cabernet Sauvignon or a rose of Cabernet. I have 30 wineries within a 50-mile radius of where I sit as I type this.
Virginia has produced a number of award-winning wines. It's insane how that industry has exploded here, considering we can have some harsh & cold winters. All of this has come about since I quit drinking, so other than intellectual curiosity, I've not had a reason to visit any.