We drink wine since.... forever....... Romans, Greeks, Gauls....
Fermented grape juice that in past times was drank diluted or mixed with water, it was part of the daily routine, shared at all times on any possible occasion.
Now a days things have changed, OH THEY HAVE CHANGED indeed. Today we have wine culture, wine education, an acquired knowledge that did not exist before and that today is taken very seriously.
Today we even have medical points of view towards drinking wine, whether if its good for your health, heart, arthritis, etc.
There's also precise and meticulous methods, techniques on how to obtain the maximum expression , distinction, realization and differentiation in a wine. Well, with use of amazing thecnology, machinery and of course of real connaisseurs who create the most sublime nectars. And I can't help wondering if all of this goes hand in hand with arrogance, pride, well... with lack of humility.
It just makes me so confused when I attend a wine tasting , I get all this funny reactions, between laughter and curiosity, to see how some people transform themselves as they take a wine glass in their hands, it seems they have to put an act to see who wins first price for best mannequin, the stiffest one, the one who makes the most ridiculous gestures, the most ridiculous faces and the one who raises his eyebrow higher.
So, why?, to what do we owe this phenomenon?.
Maybe we have taken a wrong turn, we have deflected a bit in the significance of drinking wine, what represents , it's true meaning, and instead we created a ritual full of pride and a huge lack of naturalness. Same happens with wine brands...... if " someone " very respected in the field rates ( gives a high score ) ) to a bottle of wine that once was affordable to us, simple mortals, then all of a sudden becomes affordable only for a selected number of VIP'S.
To generalize would be pretty unfair since many ( most ) of great wines with really high scores are worthy of them, for their great characteristics and quality. It seems as this is a two-faced world in which we will find a universe of choices, I just don't find it necessary to put on the " VIP " costume when it comes to wine tastings when all that really matters is to have a great time, try amazing bottles and maybe we might learn something.
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