So, in case any of you were wondering, the wine dream (that is, me learning more about and possibly getting a job out of wine) has not died. In fact, it rose from the Veuve Clicquot-tinged ashes of the New Year stronger than ever.
At the height of my Christmas shopping frenzy, I went to the wine store at Eataly, which is excruciatingly close to where I work (this is both blessing and curse). I bought my Dad a bottle of Barolo, and, upon check-out, realized the girl working there was younger than me. This made me feel like an underachiever, so I proceeded to pick her brain about how she got the job, how she learned so much about wine, etc - just generally being nosy and probably a little obnoxious, as it was the middle of Christmas shopping season and the store was pretty packed. Despite all this, she was very nice and gave me lots of good advice - most notably buying a book called the Wine Bible. It's essentially a definitive, and also readable, guide to all the regions in the world that make wine, what their characteristics are, what good vintages have been, etc etc. Armed with that and my new Moleskine Wine Journal, I'm going to start recording and reading and generally becoming a more informed person. Knowledge is power, after all. Instead of buying the same Georges Duboeuf Vin Rouge du Table (I love it! It's so good and so cheap!), I'm going to tread into the unknown, and hopefully come out the other side wiser and more sophisticated. There will be disasters (there already have been - NEVER drink this), but I'm committed. It's a resolution! I am a slave to my resolutions - so what if they involve drinking wine on a regular basis?
In other news, I decided to try to ride the trend and paint my nails gray. The jury is still out on whether it looks cool or not.
More this (long) weekend!
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