Born of Frustration

corks 4

Dorks 

How did Corks 4 Dorks come about?  Well, I'll tell you.  I married a wonderful man whose hobbies were running and wine......oh and he was a sometimes surgeon also.  I'm built for comfort, not for speed, and I can't use a knife without cutting myself.....so our common interest became wine.  He was my go to for wine.  I never had to think about what to buy.  He perused Wine Spectator on the regular, we went to wine events and spent weekends combing wine stores to add to the collection. He cruised WineBid.com to buy special bottles he couldn't find.  He got me completely hooked. I knew the tastes I liked and with what foods, but no idea of the names, vintages or even the price point.  I don't know a Sangiovese from a Pinot grape.

Fast forward to 2014:  My amazing oenophile has been gone for a year.  On January 1, 2013, my love died of ALS.  I won't bore you with all of the grief and tragedy.  It's a given. The world is changed and I have to live in the new one.  The first time I went to buy wine at Costco (one of our favorites), I was traumatized.  Some of the wines he bought were still there, but they were a little more pricey than I could justify.  I'm learning to find wines that I can love, that I can afford and that I can find.  That's when I thought about how many people I know who love wine, but don't know anything about it other than whether they like it or not.  That's really the point, isn't it?  That and to be able to afford to keep drinking it as you see fit.

My vision is still a little hazy.  What I see this sight as, is that we can share what we find that we like, talk about what it tastes like, why we like it.  I like Pinot's from the Willamette Valley (pronounced Will-Lamb-It, dammit) but don't drink them as often as I did at first, because I find that they don't stand up to red meat (that and they're a little out of my price range usually). Now, if you love Pinot, by all means, drink it with whatever you want.....but if you want to get the most out of it, I would suggest trying it with pork. It has to be what you want....not what I or anyone else tells you.  I want to take the "I only like_____" and "I have to drink_____" Out of Dorky wine lovers' vocabularies.