Life Lessons
Difficult realizations one arrives at over the course of a lifetime:
- There is no Santa
- Parents aren't perfect
- S/he is just not that into you
- There is no free lunch
- Life is, in fact, not fair
- No matter how much you wish otherwise, that '99 Spanish Rioja Reserva is past its prime - scents of decaying log rather than wild berries in the forest
sigh.
What wine life lessons have you learned?
Opening that third bottle at midnight is frequently a bad idea.
Posted by: John | 25 October 2006 at 06:58 AM
Then it follows, I suppose, that the 4th bottle at 2am isn't a bright bulb above one's head either...
Posted by: beau | 25 October 2006 at 07:35 AM
Certain wine magazines are terribly elitist when it comes to wine from places other than Calif., Oregon, Washington, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Italy, Chile, and Argentina.
AKA: "States like Michigan and Indiana don't have unique terrior. Well, if they do, then it's just icky." Certain wine mags.
Posted by: Marty | 25 October 2006 at 07:44 AM
Describing a wine as "flacid" in a tasting room will not be well received by anyone owning a penis.
Posted by: KatieP | 25 October 2006 at 08:13 AM
#1 when you realize that 75 centiliter is sometimes too small a container...
#2 when you realize 12 centiliter is so big a container that you wished some powercut could come and allow discreet emptying...
Posted by: Bertrand | 25 October 2006 at 01:30 PM
WW -
I can just see the comment spam come a-rollin in:
"got flacid Merlot? Try Vinozyte! Free! Or your money back*!"
*minus 45% of purchase price and S&H
Posted by: beau | 25 October 2006 at 02:00 PM
To add to John's emerging wine theorem: opening the bottle at midnight is unwise, but if said bottle then leads to the opening of the Drambuie or Gentleman Jack, things will only get worse.
Posted by: Steve | 27 October 2006 at 10:37 AM
It seems, to me at least, that fashionably large wine glasses cry out to be filled as often as smaller ones.
Posted by: Craig | 29 October 2006 at 02:03 PM
Craig - too true. Whenever I use the wee tasting glasses, a bottle seems to last forever. On the other hand, when the gold fish bowls-with-stems come out, the bottle disappears in minutes.
Posted by: beau | 29 October 2006 at 02:59 PM
Seems the lesson I've learned in this Wine Life is that there's always too much quarter left at the end of the 12-bottle wine club shipment.
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