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Because I usually am in Vino ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** In 2009, I gave up my studies as a medievalist and musician, left my home, my family, my life and moved to Provence in southern France for a guy. In 2012, I moved away from him to study wine. Today, I'm a vagabond sommelier working in Paris at one of the oldest and most famous restaurants in the world, struggling to find some purpose to what I deem the rest of my life. I'm still married and after 8 10 years, I'm still trying to fit-in with French life and culture and to understand why the French are the way they are. Because they're weird in a different way that I think Americans are weird. Perhaps it's me who's weird. |
| You know what annoys me? The fact that the Northern Rhône wines such as Côte Rôtie, Hermitage, and Condrieu are grouped into the same category as Côte du Rhône wines in the south such as Châteauneuf, Gigondas, Lirac, Beaume de Venise etc. They are NOT the same. The soil, the climate, the geography of the land, the grape varieties, nothing is the same. The characteristics of the wines are totally different. They have nothing in common but the Rhône river. That's it. And the Rhône is a long river. If you're going to group all the Rhône wines into one category you might as well add the wines of Bugey and Geneva while your at it. Because they're near the Rhône too. It just makes no sense to group them into the same region and there's no reason for it. We're incredibly specific about the wines of Burgundy, detailing the crus down to the smallest square meter and differentiating them as if they are completely different wines every time. If I ever said Volnay was the same thing as Pommard I'd get lynched and they are literally right next to each other. I can stand in Volnay, throw a rock, and hit Pommard. And yes, Volnay and Pommard, both in Côte de Beaune and both made from Pinot Noir give completely different wines. But so do Côte Rôtie and Châteauneuf so why are they grouped together. It's a huge region. I don't see why it's so hard to divide them into different regions. It's a pet peeve of mine. If I ever have control over a wine list again I am separating the regions. People can bitch and smirk to me all they want. The French can get as high and mighty as they like. They are not the same wine region. Period. I had to get that off my chest. No one answered about my Camp NaNo question on the General Discussion board so I guess I'm the only one signed up. Or who'd like to make a group of WDC members working together. That's fine. I have my French group who seem pretty supportive and active at the moment. Though since we are all actually in confinement and not in fake-confinement in the States we're a captive audience for these sorts of things. I wrote 1500 words today. Then spoke to one of the sommeliers from La Tour and studied wine for an hour. Which is what sparked the aforementioned rant. Now I'm going to lay down because my eyes hurt. I left my glasses on the train coming down to Arles and don't have a spare. For the most part it's fine, but after several hours I need to rest my eyes. |
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I think it's awesome that you're using that negative experience to get creative. It's hard not to just wallow when those things happen. I use a paper journal for most of my actual coping process too, but I do share bits and pieces on WDC as well.
Might try a short story a day instead. Stay safe. 
