Why it's time to forget everything you know about wine
Despite drinking buckets of the stuff, many of us still lack confidence when it comes to wine. We become a bit too dependent on what other people tell us to drink, and when alone at a restaurant, bar or bottle shop, choosing a bottle persists as a source of nail-biting anxiety. We’re drinking with the stabilisers on.
Can you imagine having the same dread when you order a pint of lager, or an espresso martini? Life would be impossible and every visit to a pub would be six hours long. The solution? It’s time to forget everything we know about wine. The rules we abide by — what we ought to drink and how we ought to drink it — have been established by centuries of tradition and decades of socialising, and while they’re sometimes helpful for navigating an otherwise overwhelming amount of information, following them too blindly can restrict our drinking experiences. So it’s time to
