What is the only delight of wine in which we cannot enjoy COVID, which you expect especially when things return to normal?
I have made this consultation many times in recent weeks, anecdotally, to friends and colleagues, either inside and outside the wine trade. There have been repeated some answer topics you might be waiting for, such as trips to wine destinations, on a large scale. Occasional evening tastings and gatherings where sitting close to each other is not a public fitness taboo.
When I delve a little de further into the “travel” response, a destination appeared more frequently, Italy.
There is no specific style in which other people would like to return to Italy; They talked about everything from Sicily to Siena to Sardinia. If it’s in Italy, that’s fine. Nor is there a specific style that Italian wines lack the maximum drink; They talked about everything, Vermentino de Liguria, Piedmont chardonnay and Haut-Adige schiava. If the wine is Italian, that’s fine.
I can say, since I missed all those things too. I found myself nodding with a smile on my face when he expressed one of the previous reviews.
Nodding and smiling according to a number of tips certainly doesn’t seem extraordinarily demanding, and that’s not the case. Finally, I knew that what we were all talking about, and smiling about, the reminiscence of Italy and the joy of drinking wine in Italy, what we can’t wait to come back to is how we feel when we drank wine at The Special Environment. Italy.
This feeling, more than any bottle, city or canteen, is what we miss the most. Of course, we can drink Italian wine and share it with friends without being physically provided in Italy, but that is not what we seem to be looking for. A friend put it like this: Drinking COVID Italian wine is like the taste of calling and answering by singing, unless there is no answer to the call.
Which is a feeling of loneliness.
“If I don’t return to Italy soon, I don’t think they can be guilty of my own behavior. “
I heard those words at the end of another verbal exchange with some other wine lover about how much we miss Italy. Joking, of course.
On the top.
The veta in fact in this joke is what makes COVID go crazy for wine lovers and travel enthusiasts: without the adrenaline and inspiration we dream of, that Italy delivers so deftly to its visitors, we are not entirely ourselves, or at least we are not the self we are. Maximum from time to time recognize in the mirror.
Adventure is a component of our composition. Italy and its wines too. COVID’s ability to compromise, for now, those elements of our personality is one of its ultimate stealth moves.
I am an entrepreneur in the wine generation box and a journalist with a specific interest in wine business and politics. My writings and I’ve appeared
I am an entrepreneur in the wine generation and a journalist with a specific interest in wine business and politics. My writings and photographs have been published in print, online and on radio for media such as BBC America, Decanter, The Atlantic, DailyBeast, Worth Magazine, Food52. com, Boston Globe and Washington Post. I’ve worked for some of the world’s leading chefs by adding Thomas Keller, Alice Waters and Jean-Pierre Vigato. I am also the founder of Harvard Alumni in Wine and Food. I the global in search of the generous spirit – and natural joy!- Genuine hospitality.