My wife has started studying wine. Its a bit worrying because she's a good student and I'm not. I'm a terrible student.
She puts in two hours a day, everyday, swot, swot, swot, then makes me test her. She may only be on WSET Level 2 Certificate but where's it all going to end is what I want to know? Once she gets going on studying something she never stops.
This is the wife who for thirty-odd years has always preferred a G&T to almost any wine. This is also the wife/Managing Director always happy to leave wine matters to me and get on with the general management stuff.
Retired and bored, she went and planted that vineyard down the road with that Cherry Postlethwaite.
That started it.
You'd think the long hours of vineyard work would be enough. But no; now she wants to be a total wine expert now. Which I find threatening. I blame Cherry for this.
I have only ever done a smattering of wine (or for that matter, any...) study in my life; pick it up on the job is my way. I've spent a lifetime finding out what's now all laid out in her textbook and can be learnt in hours by a hoover-brain. Soon she will know more than me!
That's not fair, and it’s threatening my lifetime's role. Next thing you know she'll be asking for the Wine List in restaurants. What's left for me then?
As far as I'm concerned, now EVERYONE might as well become a wine expert. Why not? Make me totally redundant. Get on to that Ian Harris - all his fault - at The Wine and Spirit Education Trust. Get on a course. They do them round the world, everywhere. For anyone!
Mind you, their book; "Looking Behind the Wine Label" is very good. But then all the wine labels they show are ours. That's some reassurance for me, at least.
i agree. my husband is completely forbidden to learn anything wine related.
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