Wine Maker Insures Nose and I start a Blog!

So sometimes things just work out.  I have been throwing around blog ideas for a long time and have even got to the point of creating said blogs...but then...I can't do it.  Today was another one of those fateful days, I had, as I had many times before decided what I wanted to blog about.  Now, I should mention that the general theme of my blog attempts have all been the same, wine.  This time around I have decided that I am going to blog about the notes (and therefore the tastes and smells I experience) that I take when trying a  new wine.  Ok, I know...there are about a million people doing this very thing via blog, magazine, back of wine labels, professionally, etc.  Believe me, I never thought I was going to do a wine blog that actually described wine, I always wanted to focus on the experience of wine.


I had almost religiously, for a long time, been taking notes when tasting when.  Then, just as so many half written diaries of my youth, I just stopped.  Currently, I am taking a wine appreciation class in which I am required to note what it is that I smell and taste and I have realized how much I miss writing my wine notes.  The notes that I am taking in my class now are different...they are liberated...free of the "accepted" venacular when describing wines.  I realized that in the years that have passed since I first started taking wine notes, my beliefs on how we should relate to wine have become firm and my confidence has grown.  I am writing this blog to promote and encourage people to interact differently with their wine.  I plan on doing this by leading by example.

Just this evening I stumbled upon an article about weirdest insurance policies.  A dutch winemaker that makes wine in France has insured his nose for $8 million because he claims that he can detect, via his nose, not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of scents.  I have my doubts that any one could even name millions of scents let alone detect them.  However, what this claim means is that there is the possibility of smelling something other than the simple range of fruits, woods, spices, and a small variety of other things we have been taught to detect (and I completely agree!!).  This is exciting for me and I think should be exciting for some many others, especially those who feel "inadequate" when it comes to verbalizing or relating to their wine experiences.  Check back soon and see what I mean first hand!

Cheers