I am not a big drinker. If I drink anything at all, it is usually a girly mixed drink. And yet I realize that to be social--especially in field I am planning to enter--I must learn to drink something a little less fruity. At the prof's soiree last weekend I was offered wine. Knowing that I have never liked red wine, but I have been ok with very cheap and fruity white wines, I opted for the white. Although it was neither cheap nor especially fruity, it was ok. I noted that it was a pinot grigio (although I'm not sure of the winemaker), so that I would have something to spout off next time I had to order a drink. (I already suffered a rather embarrassing episode this summer when I went out for beers with fellow interns and the judge I was working for and I didn't have a clue what beer to order. )
So...today I was shopping in SuperTarget and happened down the wine aisle. Since I now had the name of a kind of wine I could stand, I thought I'd buy a bottle, so that hubby and I could experiment a little (with the wine, you sicko!) Now, even SuperTarger has about 10-15 varieties of pino grigios, so how else was I to decide but by the label? I picked one with a cute label, but noted that it had a screw-top, and even I know that good wine must be corked. But still, I don't even own a corkscrew and the label was cute--and it said it tasted just like biting into a fresh pear--so I decided to give it a try.
This stuff is terrible! Blech! I can barely stand to smell it, much less actually drink it. Maybe it was the screw top. Maybe I am still not a wine drinker. Maybe I should stick to bottled water at social events, because at 31 with a mortgage and three kids I am a grown-up whether or not I drink wine.
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