Wine as a hobby
While on a shopping trip yesterday afternoon, Jacquie and I slipped into the Home Outfitters in Whitby with the intention of looking around and, hopefully, finding a couple of all-purpose wine glasses big enough for properly tasting wines. After leaving the store with a couple of wine glasses (big enough to slosh wine around in them, unlike the other glasses we have), a decanter and a vacuum wine pump (for removing oxygen from a wine bottle), I realized just how much of a hobby wine can be.After all, there are all sorts of wine paraphernalia that a connoisseur could buy, including red wine glasses, white wine glasses, Chianti glasses, Burgundy glasses, Champagne flutes, stemless wine glasses (the purpose of which eludes me), artistic and non-artistic corks, vacuum wine pumps, several different types of cork removers, temperature gauges, wine racks, decanters, wine chillers, wine buckets and various books, magazines and DVDs on the subject of wine.
It seems like an awful lot for what is essentially fermented grape juice, no?
posted by Chris @ 12:32 PM
2 Comments:
I seem to be missing the purpose of the stemless glass myself (the point is to keep the wine's temperature, yes?) ... wouldn't that make it a snifter or is this something less useful?
Z.
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