My Personal Experience With Wine

In this post I will dive into my personal experiences I have had with wine as well as my tastes and a little bit more about myself. To start off, let me introduce myself, my name is Will Robson and I am a senior at Virginia Tech studying Mechanical Engineering. I don't have too many wine drinking experiences or much wine knowledge but I hope that throughout the course of this semester I will expand my knowledge and grow my experiences with wine. I may not have much experience with wine but I do have lots of experience with other alcoholic beverages. I am an avid enjoyer of craft beers, bourbon and all manor of weird, funky cocktails. I hope that my experience with these beverages will have helped prepared my pallet at least a little to begin my journey with wine. I also love to cook and want to be able to implement wine into more of the meals I create. 

Like I said, I do not have too much experience with wine but that is not to say I've never enjoyed a good glass of Cabernet Sauvignon with a nice steak. In the past I've had wine alongside nice dinners with my family or over at friends houses during more formal gatherings but I've never known much about what I was drinking. One experience that stands out in my mind is one time I was over at a good friends house for Shabbat Dinner and we had a fabulous meal alongside some fabulous wine to pair with it. I don't remember specifically what we were drinking but I do remember having a nice red wine with dinner and then the most delicious, sweet dessert wine afterwards. I wish I remember what we were drinking because it was a fabulous way to cap off a delicious meal. 

So all this is to say that I have had some experiences with wine but I have never really known anything about the wine I was drinking. My goal with this course and with this blog is to learn everything I can about wine and to document the process using this blog. I hope that I can learn more about how wine is made and different types of wine but most importantly I want to learn how to pair wine and food well. My experience having Shabbat Dinner with my friend and his family was damn near magical and I would love to have the wine knowledge to put together pairings like that myself. So I guess in conclusion that is my one major goal, to be able to know enough about wine to put together the best food and wine pairings I can.