The Top Ten Reasons I Hate Wine - One, The Unconscionable Expense
Some of you may know me from my wine article series I Love Italian Wine and Food, similar French and German series, and travel articles that always manage to discuss local wine and food. Its true; I really do love wine and food from Italy, France, Germany, and other countries as well. But I also hate wine and many aspects of the wine scene. Let me explain my top ten reasons for this love-hate relationship.
The unconscionable expense
Dont let anybody kid you. Good wine is expensive. Great wine is even more expensive. There are bargains, but finding them is like kissing scads of frogs to find a prince. You have to kiss a lot of frogs (yechh) before you get to kiss a prince. And to top it off, I dont even want to kiss any princes.
I do, however, want to drink fine wine. And the more fine wine that I drink, the more fine wine I want to drink. Before I started writing wine reviews, twenty dollars was more or less my limit for a bottle; now I almost feel like apologizing when I spend less than twenty. Having tasted some excellent wines in the forty-dollar range, I am dying to know how sixty-dollar wines taste. Needless to say, some will be disappointing. But in some ways it is worse to find an excellent sixty-dollar wine. I cant go around spending sixty dollars a bottle on a regular basis.
I got permission from my wife to buy a single one hundred dollar bottle of wine per year. Such a bottle will cost me at least two hundred dollars; my wife is not a wine lover, and she will want a one hundred dollar item for herself. But thats not the end of my wine expense problems. One of the most wine-savvy people I know recently described the pleasures of a $600 bottle of Chateau Petrus; a top of the line French red wine. I asked him if it was worth the money. His response was short and sweet, absolutely. I havent yet gotten near that price point, but
Here are the other reasons: The embarrassing lack of knowledge, No wine cellar, I cant get the bottle opened, The insomnia, Food problems, Wine snobs, Those smells and those tastes, Those colors, Home brew, One more problem and yes, The Solution.
Levi Reiss has authored or co-authored ten books on computers and the Internet, but to be honest, he would rather just drink fine Italian, French, or other wine, accompanied by the right foods. He teaches classes in computers at an Ontario French-language community college. He knows what dieting is, and is glad that for the time being he can eat and drink what he wants, in moderation.
His central website is http://www.wineinyourdiet.com devoted to the health and nutritional aspects of wine and its place in your weight-loss program. His global wine website is http://www.theworldwidewine.com
Visit his other websites devoted to Italian wine, Italian travel, and Italian food.
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