Easy Question! Which country consumes the most wine?
Was your first thought France? It may seem like a shocker, but the United States is actually now the biggest consumer of wine in the world! According to Vinexpo and International Wine and Spirit Research (ISWR), the US consumed the equivalent of 3.7 BILLION bottles of wine in 2011.
I'll cut to the chase - I'm in the home stretch of my undergraduate career and decided to pursue my interest in this little beverage called wine. How am I going to do this you ask? Well, I enrolled in a class called Geography of Wine at Virginia Tech. It's taught by this pretty cool guy named John Boyer. (If you don't know who I'm talking about, please Google "Plaid Avenger", you'll be doing yourself a favor.)
As part of the personalized grade package offered in this class, I have the option to blog about my wine experiences. These experiences range anywhere from local wine tastings to food & wine pairings to winery visits. Hopefully, as you follow my blog, you'll witness an increase in my knowledge of wine, the maturity of my pallet, and with that, an improvement in my ability to express these smells and taste in words.
I promise I will try to make this interesting/helpful to you in some way if you...
1. Leave a comment when you have knowledge of something I don't!
2. Ask me questions if you have them!
3. Lastly, cut me some slack. This is an informal wine blog. There may be grammatical/spelling errors. *This will be mostly because of my dedication to this blog. I will taste each wine as many times as I have to in order to deliver the best information I can to my readers.
Bottom line - Thanks for taking the time to check this out, even if you are just the TA grading it...
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