First Wine Blog
Current Experience With Wine So far in life, I have a fairly minimal amount of experience with wine. Until fairly recently, a lot of my peers and I treated alcohol as just a means to get drunk, so nobody really cared about how things tasted. With that mindset, it feels pretty taboo to drink along with a meal or just drink to enjoy the taste. That view also wasn't helped by the fact that most of the wine I had tried until recently was either a cheap Barefoot Fruitscato or came from a bag. I think I only started to come around to wine when I wanted to have a drink with some character to go with some steak. I had a friend who brewed his own mead, so I drank some of that with the steak. While the mead probably wasn't the ideal pairing for steak, the combination was still very enjoyable and opened me up to the idea that pairing certain foods and alcohols can be tasty. I am very new to wine vocabulary and spent nearly all my life not giving any thought to describing wine I've had