“Wine is bottled poetry”

“Wine is bottled poetry” said Robert Louis Stevenson.
First of all I want to clear one thing about wine, is ‘WINE IS WINE’. Please don’t refer it as liquor! Generally people consider it as hard or distilled liquor, something like vodka, whisky, rum, beer or simply Daru. But no! Wine is totally different from these things.
Now you will wonder if it is not any type of liquor then what is it. It is just ‘The product exclusively recovered from the complete or partial alcoholic fermentation of grapes or grape must’. (Conversion of sugar to alcohol).
It is not so that people are wrong; this is just lack of knowledge about wine. Even I am not exception for this. Before two and half years I used to consider wine as liquor, but now after completing the ‘Applied B.Sc. in Wine Technology’ (wine making course) there is drastic change in my opinion. Because I studied the science behind it, quality grape growing, standard methods of wine making, wine tasting etc. That’s why now I understand that wine is wine.
From ancient time wine has a medicinal importance. It is a health drink but, when consumed moderately. Medicine should be used as medicine; otherwise you know very well that what will happen! And what’s moderation? Well, moderation is defined as a glass or two each day, and no, you can’t save them up all week and drink all of them on the weekend. In fact, too much wine per day or per week can lead to negative health effects in many cases and rather than prevent disease.
Consuming wine in moderation daily will help people to die young as late as possible. ~ Dr Philip Norrie
There is an incident regarding wine in my life. The occasion was my birthday party, just few months after my marriage, and then party with drinks was totally new thing for me. At that time I didn’t know anything about beer, vodka or wine, I considered all those as liquor or in general language Daru. My husband ordered a Rose wine for me, a mild sweet wine. At that time I just tasted one sip of it for my husband’s satisfaction. I don’t even remember what that taste was? I just closed my eyes and sipped it.
Exactly after one year, on the same occasion, my husband brought me a Red wine bottle, that time I was so happy that he gifted me such a wonderful thing.
One not only drinks the wine but smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and.....one talk about it.
That one year changed my opinion completely. Now I can taste wine without any hesitation, and even invite you to taste it.
CHEERS!