Zinfandel tasting

Wine & History No, this is not yet another treatise on the history of wine. That’s been done enough times. This is just an outgrowth of my random musings as I drink wines.
When I am drinking wine, I tend to think about the fact that when this wine was put into this bottle, the world was a rather different place.


Granted, for the wines that I can afford most of the time, the difference was not that big. But on a good evening, one can think about the fact that when this was put into the bottle, none of us had ever heard of the WWW, and there was a republican in the White House. And on an exceptional evening, things like the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union come to mind.

I expect that it’s a little strange that I would be thinking of what was in the headlines, rather than what the harvest was like that year, but the folks who think that there’s a right way to drink wine are missing the point, which is to enjoy it.
By the way, speaking of the world changing, this is my first article that I’ve written on my Visor, which is the latest competitor to the Palm Pilot. I don’t know how I functioned without it. But when this Sauvignon Blanc was bottled, palm-top computers were still science-fiction.

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