A “Drink This” Triumph!
The whole reason I wrote Drink This was to help. So when I heard from a reader today about his Drink This triumph it made my day. The size and shape of the triumph was this: This reader went into a very classy, comprehensive, overwhelming liquor store and scored a bottle of wine he loved without feeling confused, intimidated, and possibly suckered. “Here’s what I did,” he told me. “I wrote down a list of names from the Pinot Noir chapter, marched in there, and found one of them. Obviously there’s teaching yourself stuff, but sometimes you just want a name on a piece of paper.” The bottle of wine he scored was the basic Argyle Pinot Noir “It was a $26 bottle of wine, which is a little more than I would ordinarily be comfortable buying, but it was such a great feeling to walk out of the chaos like: I can now look at a row of meaningless shapes and colors and get some help! Instead of walking out of the wine store like, oh, did I just totally f myself.” And he loved the wine.
Some weeks you feel like you do nothing right, and some weeks you hear something like this and it all feels all right.
Tags: Drink This Triumph!, Pinot Noir
I recently happened upon ‘Drink This’ at my local library completely by chance. And although I’ve only read about Zinfandel, and not even done a proper tasting yet, I already feel so much more confidence in the liquor store. Today I picked up a bottle of ‘Dancing Bull’ and I can’t wait to try it, and I actually have an idea what to expect! Glory be!
Thanks! That makes my day. I think once you do the tasting (or simply do the tasting over a year or two) you’ll find you are a lifetime expert in the wine. It’s really tremendously confidence-giving.