Everyday Wining

  How I really start discovering wine and it becomes a passion After my wine experience in Australia, I was not only interested in improving my wine tasting skills but also knowing the work and theory behind it. I wanted to know about grapes, terrains, wine production methods and I for sure wanted to try as many wines as possible. Hopefully being able to distinguish them one day from one another. The same summer, 2019, I spent some weeks in Estonia and tried to find my first wine book. Unfortunately, it had disappeared during my move to Lux. I started looking for and ordering new books, for example “The New Wine Rules: A Genuinely Helpful Guide to Everything You Need to Know” by Jon Bonné. It’s very easy to read with cool illustrations and without any complicated “expert” talk. This should have been my very first wine book. I discovered chocolaty Pinotage from South Africa, compared different sparkling wines and one of the best surprises, I discovered Sauternes – a very sweet w...

  How I try to bring wining to Estonia, move to Luxembourg and do my very first vineyard tour in Australia After the second year in France I started to appreciate wine. It was not anymore just a means to get some buzz in the head. It was a social drink, enjoyed on its own or with food and with food one really needs to know what to drink without ruining either the food or wine. I still followed the basic rule: white with fish and seafood, red with other meats. It was a start. I tried cooking with wine (onion soup with white wine, coq-au-vin with red, my version was a bit fake though, in the absence of the rooster, I used the chicken), I started drinking a glass or two during meals, first during dinner, then also during lunch. In Estonia, it was not so common to have a glass of wine with your lunch, especially in between university lectures. Maybe in restaurants but I rarely went there. So, when I took this lunchtime wine drinking habit back home, my ex worried that there may be a...