Wine Blogging Wednesday #43: Comfort wines hosted by Joel Vincent

This should be about the easiest Wine Blogging Wednesday, right? Joel, of Wine Life Today, has charged us with picking and writing about a wine we already know we love, a wine that brings comfort to us. No shopping to find wine from an obscure region, or of an obscure grape variety. No need to spend money. A breeze, right?

Easier said than done. We’ve been racking our brains, trying to think of a wine that comforts us more than any other. But we don’t have a go-to wine. We’ve never really bought more than a bottle or two of any one wine for our own collection. We have no case of a favored wine, at the ready, for a night we’re feeling stressed, an evening celebration, or to bring to a friend’s for dinner. Sure, we happen to own a wine store. Sure, we have cases upon cases of wine there, but that’s not our personal stash, and we keep a pretty rigid separation between the store’s cellar and the wines we have at home.

So maybe it’s a cop-out, but our comfort wine is…wine in general. This is why our hobby turned into an obsession and then into a profession. Having wine in our lives has made us more relaxed, more thoughtful, and more balanced. More so, it’s comforting to know that as we get older, the sense of discovery about the world, that childhood curiosity, doesn’t have to disappear. And wine is what does that for us.

When we opened our first bottle of the Rafael Palacios “As Sortes” last year, or when we tried the Curran Grenache Blanc for the first time — these are two instances we can remember, moments that made us feel special, like we had happened upon something pure. Same goes for the first time the buyer at John & Pete’s offered us a sip of Chris Ringland’s Alto Moncayo Garnacha, and when we were privileged with drinking a 1978 Savigny-Les-Beaune in Lucien Camus’s cellar.

That feeling of tasting something new, of knowing that there is so much more out there, waiting to be discovered, is the most pleasant and comforting feeling we can imagine. We thank the world of wine in general for giving us this remedy to what might otherwise have turned into a quarter-life crisis.

Okay, quarter-life is pushing it. But we can’t call it a mid-life crisis just yet. Third-life?

Thanks to Joel for hosting, and, as always, to Lenn for coming up with Wine Blogging Wednesday so many moons ago.

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