27th of December... I had just turned 27, and decided to start a blog. Things leading to another, work over my head, trips here and there, and finally my poor blog ended up with 2 posts after some 8 months. Ah, working on this blog requires some time. So there I am again, with new objectives. But first, a little description of who your devoted blogger is:
I have been acquainted with wine for just a few years, 5 exactly. I began drinking sweet white wines - nice, easy and for a woman slightly more elegant than drinking beer out of a bottle. (Nothing wrong with beer, I actually love them too.) Little by little I began asking myself questions about it, without ever being able to understand it. Always very studious at school, this was a subject I couldn't get through books, no matter how small and easy these were. I should also probably mention that I’m from France, which is certainly not the easiest country when you want to start understanding wine.So 5 years ago, after a business school, I decided to specialise myself in wine marketing, and this has been the greatest decision of my life, so far (leaving room for some more is certainly a good idea…). I started a year of travel around more than 20 countries from Sweden to Hungary, through Germany, France, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, USA, Australia etc... and all this while studying – basically a concrete education based on daily tastings directly from the source. Stopping from time to time in universities (very rarely though), meeting the different actors of the wine industry and most of the time going from wineries to wineries wisely listening to the winemakers, viticulturist, sales and marketing people, or owners and catching every possible answer to my questions. Sounds like a dream? Indeed it's been great.
Books would have taught me about theories, but I got to feel wine in every sense: with my nose and palate, but also through the stories and the people. I got to feel wine from Where it was from, from Why it tasted a specific way, from Who were the people behind the wine and What it was made with and from. The wine in a glass always brings up these 4 W questions to me, some wines will answer more than one of them, but only a beautiful wine answers these 4 questions truly. That was actually the name of my first blog – wineandthe4w.over-blog.com.
Fresh start.
Before I end this introduction up, I’m here to share information and don’t pretend knowing everything since I actually know such a little compared to what I still have to learn, and that’s why I love so much wine!
All this being said, so many of these blogs or websites already exist! Why creating another one and most importantly how different will that be? …
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