That made you realize you really like wine?
I had always been more of a beer drinker. Would casually drink wine - maybe buy a 10-15$ bottle at the store if I was cooking a steak dinner.
Then one day I was shopping at Costco and thought like splurging on a couple of nicer bottles as I started enjoying a glass here and there a bit more. One of the bottles I bought was a Pinot noir out of Santa Barbara from a winery named Kessler-Haak. A couple weeks later I opened it up with my wife to enjoy with a rack of lamb and it completely changed my relationship to wine. I don’t even know if that wine is considered good, but it opened the door to the wine world for me. Now, I’m by no means a collector - I have a 18 bottle wine fridge I keep decently stocked, but now I put a lot more effort into pairing my food with good wine and keeping an interesting selection available for date nights or good company.
And I also keep on finding new & interesting wine styles. Just this month I discovered Italian white wines out of Gavi and have been a bit obsessed.
Very thankful for that one fateful day @ Costco that opened my eyes & palette to wine.
For 15 years, Athan Zafirov has traveled the vineyards around the world and worked with some of the greatest chefs including Francois Duc and Alan Brown.
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