Ben Justman🍷

This is what being an adult looks like to me.

Most wines taste the same. I've commonly opened bottles and thought "I've had this wine before" even if its from a producer I've never heard of. Most wine is made as a commodity. It is made to be an alcoholic beverage and there's nothing wrong if your main goal is to get drunk. Wine can be far more than that. Winemaking sits between art and science, but when focusing on the bottom line, the art is usually the first thing removed. Price isn't everything, but as you start going up, the commodity wine begins to disappear. Anyone with a winemaking degree from UC Davis can make technically correct wine, but it takes an artist to make interesting wine. Drink whatever tastes good, but if you have never understood why people get fall down the wine rabbithole it's probably because you've mostly been exposed to commodity wine

If you're "aging" a bottle of wine on your kitchen wine rack, you're doing it wrong. That's the worst place to store wine. You're exposing it to light, temperature swings and pungent smells. If this is you, find the excuse you've been waiting for. Just open the bottle. When you are actually ready for the 5-10 year commitment of aging wine, do yourself a favor and invest in proper storage. Wine needs darkness, stable temperature, and time, not your kitchen counter

The time is near.🍷👀