Laura and I just got back from learning more about wine in an hour and a half than we had gleaned from several years of random tasting. It turns out there really is something to that whole actually learning about wine thing.
I think the biggest take-away lesson was that I had wildly underestimated the extent to which food pairing matters. I always thought it was a sort of “find a wine you like, and then if it goes with the food, so much the better” sort of thing, when in actuality it's a “if you drink wine with the wrong food you stand a good chance of ruining the wine completely and coming away with totally the wrong idea” thing.
Who knew?
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