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Is wine starting to get boring?
I grew up with the idea that there is always a great story behind wine. I am Italian, and here wine is really part of our culture, if you drive through Italy sooner or later you will see big and small vineyards along the roads that connect small towns. From Lombardy to Basilicata, Sicily, Veneto, Tuscany, Piedmont and all the other regions, you cannot go more than 20 kilometers without seeing a vineyard. When you stop for lunch at a trattoria in the Italian countryside, you will often find local wines made less than 500 meters away. So yes, wine in Italy is almost sacred, and you can notice it even from the controversy in politics when someone dares to question the regulations governing its production, as with regard to labels, recommendations on alcohol in Ireland, or the ancient story about natural wines.
I wrote about wine, too
I started getting seriously involved in wine in 2005 by taking a sommelier course, I was already 40 years old so I wasn’t exactly a young up-and-comer, but my job is entirely different (I’m an IT engineer) and that course served as a way for me to enter a whole new world, for me. It was an interesting and beautiful and tiring world, and like everybody I was eager to tell something, about the tastings and the services I was doing around. I opened a website (it’s still there, it’s called Storie del Vino, in Italian…
