Mandatory blog - prior knowledge

     Before taking this wine class, I never really cared about wine. Beer and liquor were my drinks of choice. I had tried wine before, but I thought it had tasted like a dirt and cherry mesh. I had primarily tasted red wines with a few gross white from California that left a disgusting aftertaste in my mouth,but never branched out or understood why people had a fixation over wine.

     I never really branched out and the few winery visits that I went on, I mainly just stuck to the charcuterie boards and sampled my friends wine. There was never really a wine that stuck out to me that I would drink over a rum and coke. I always thought of wine as an inferior drink... until I took this course and started learning the roots and history of each drink. The amount of care that goes into each bottle and the amount of years of refining each grape to give a certain flavor is immensely interesting. Not to mention the history of each individual vineyard and how grapes can change their flavor due to microclimates. Its a vast unknown knowledge that feels like it is just revealing itself to me. 

    the last thing that I'd like to share is that after receiving the last few weeks of knowledge from this course, this is something I could be learning about for the rest of my life and still not know everything about it. I didnt realize until after writing that sentence that my reason for learning about wine is shared with one of my reasons for pursuing science. I'll always have more to learn.