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(01-05-2018 04:56 AM)TooFineAPoint Wrote:  

The healthier I ate, and the better the cooking, the more I enjoyed wine.

Now I am obsessed with it.

The concept of terroir can really annoy some people who think it is too pretentious, but there are not many things that celebrate the beauty and zest of life as much as eating food freshly picked from the same land that grow the herbs you cook them in and whose dirt houses the vines of the wine you drink alongside it.

When you get totally obsessed like me you start to hallucinate that you can taste where a wine comes from:

The snow-capped Andes as you sip an Argentinian Malbec.

The steep shale slopes of the Mosel shining through a glass of German Riesling.

The fog-covered valley that birthed Napa Cabernet.

The sun-scorched land of Barossa Shiraz.

It's made me want to travel much, much more, just to see these places.

Also:

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If you chew gum, or eat or drink any sweet, or any junk food in general that day, it will ruin the taste of most wines for your palette.

Please Read.