Hey blogging world! My name is Ryan Stewart and this blog will be dedicated to my journey of learning more about wine through Geography of Wine with Professor Boyer this spring. I have very little experience with wine thus far. I have only had a few sips now and then during dinners with family. Therefore, I have very little idea of what I like and don't about wines. I hope to be able to figure out a couple of good wines to start on and work my way up to better ones with time.
The only saving grace of my lack of experience is the fact that my aunt
makes her own wines and also works at a winery back home! Her experience with wine was the driving force of me taking this class. I feel that if I can learn about wines and even find a few "diamonds in the rough" as Professor Boyer keeps saying, I will be able to better connect with her. With this experience and knowledge, I might even be able to recommend a few wines to her and have intelligent conversations with her over the holidays.
In this class I hope to learn more about the overall production of wine. How the plants are started, what kind of care they require, how to turn those plants into delicious wine, etc. With that basis, I hope to then move on to pairings of wines and food. This knowledge will help me to impress others with knowledge of tastes, as well as allow me to further enjoy dinners while also finally kicking my soda habit. Finally through all of this, I hope to also find a few wines that I enjoy a good amount so that I may have those at my leisure. This will be done through tastings, dinners, visits to wineries, and other activities which are enabled through the course. So I hope that those of you reading my blog enjoy and possibly even join me in my quest to further my palette to wines!
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