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RE: Describe your wine epiphany

Posted by MannyE on September 6, 2011 at 19:56:05:
It was during college. I was sitting in my dorm when me and my room mates got to talking about wine. Keep in mind we were drinking the cheapest beer we could get our hands on and Gallo jug wine.

One of the guys says that he's heard that wine should be aired for an hour or so before drinking so the real flavor can develop blah blah...

We get it into our alcohol and drug addled minds (ahhh college) that we will splurge for a bottle of Beaujolais... I remember it was a Louis Jadot and so we went to the store, got a bottle of 84 or 85 LJ Beaujolais and waited for about 30 minutes... and then boom! That first sip was so much better than anything we had ever imbibed from that first Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill in High School to Pink Champale (swanky) to Bush Beer.

It was my first taste of a fine wine from France that really hit all the senses... the color, the smell and the taste were so far beyond anything I had ever tried that I was hooked forever.

Since then I have had many experiences with wine but not even my first taste of Chateau d'Yquem '60something with foie gras (freaking amazing) had the impact of that first simple bottle of light red wine.