The Beginning of Wine Night

Here's the deal: this blog is about wine. The catch? We know nothing about wine...yet.

After a week in the Caribbean before Spring semester started, my friend Halley and I decided that we needed to deliberately set aside time each week to take a break from the never ending stacks of homework. Stress is bad, but it can be managed. Thus, we came up with "Thursday Wine Night". Every Thursday night, the two of us (none of our other friends actually like wine) take some time to just sit and have a glass of wine, usually red. Sometimes we have food, sometimes we just sit an chat. Basically, it's our own spin on the notorious "Thirsty Thursday". Think this is a bad idea? Talk to the striking writers who took away The Office, Grey's Anatomy, and Gossip Girl.

As we started buying the wine (or, rather, as Halley started buying the wine), we realized it would be beneficial to actually know what we were drinking and how to evaluate the wines. We are after all, Middlebury students, sophisticated business meetings and dinners are in our future. None of what we learn will be invaluable (at least that's what we keep telling ourselves). Thus, we are making a foray into the world of wine, from tasting to festivals, from Napa to Tuscany, one Thursday at a time.

The purpose of this blog is to help us document what we discover and learn so we don't forget it. What good is knowledge if it does not last? Our hope, or at least my hope, is that this will eventually become a larger research compendium and chronicle about wine. (For example, I will be actually living in Tuscany next fall.) Most of what we drink on Wine Nights is red, mostly because it's what we both prefer and partly because my parents mostly drink white at home. However, this blog and what we learn will cover wine in general.

We hope you enjoy the fun as much as we do!

Buona sera tutti,

Em