Wine has a long history, and it used to have certain kind of exclusivity to the Old World. Today it covers many regions around the globe, countries as far as New Zealand, and as improbable as Canada or China.
Wine was originally made to please and to heal. It became the drink of choice of the nobility, kings and emperors, then the rich and powerful, more recently the rich and famous, and finally just to please anybody who would enjoy a glass of wine, rich, poor, famous or not.
Today, wine is made consistently good and affordable. It would please just about any palate; regardless if is that of a novice or the palate of the sophisticated. It make sense to study it, but most importantly, it has to be tasted, compared and consumed regularly with food, without worrying about recipes, the so called perfect matches, or worst of all, somebody else’s tasting preferences.
