Wine - Drink from the heart

Recently, we are into wine and have been enjoying tasting a variety of wines from different countries every weekend.

My favorite wine so far is a French wine called " Lacheteau Vouvray " which has a dragon image on the label of the bottle.

It has 11% Alcohol, richness with acacia, pear and almond aromas.
I drink about two glasses of that wine each night of weekends.

My husband loves Italian wine, so both of us drink different one.

Until I found this French white wine, my favorite wine was always a German wine called " Katz" which has the image of a black cat.

When I was staying in a ski village in Nagano, Japan, there was a boy who was studying to be an Italian foods chef.  

I was often joining parties with the hotel workers , and in one of the parties that boy bought several wines which were his recommendations, which were German and Italian wines.

and one of them was that Katz, and I really loved that taste at that time.

The boy told us he had tasted many wines, and Italian and German wines are usually well balanced taste, so if you don't know which wine to get, good to get these country's wines if you don't want to fail the taste.

Somehow I remembered his advice, and I also tasted some other countries wines later, but the German wine Katz was always my favorite and I enjoyed  Italian wines as well.


About wine, I have another memorable experience,

I don't drink red wine because it's too strong for me and I get the feeling of dizzy every time I tasted it. and never felt it's really delicious.

However, there was only one time , I had an unforgettable memory with hot red wine in Germany, during my European trip when I was single.

I loved to travel abroad by myself without having a plan when I was single.




In one of my European trips, I traveled around Germany 7 places, and it was Rothenburg which was located on the Romantic Road in Germany, I had a great memory with red wine. 

After enjoying walking around the town of Rothenburg on a cold day, my legs were already exhausted, with pain and my body got chilled by the cold wind.
I was looking for a restaurant which I can feel comfortable, and not so busy place.   

Choosing a restaurant for dinner was not easy sometimes especially  at dinner time in the tourist place, and in that evening most of the restaurants were busy.

As a result, I got into a cozy restaurant bar where there were not too many customers around 8:30 pm.

In the menu, there were a list of many brand of wines, but I knew nothing about the wine, so I just ordered one of a glass of hot red wine for drink from my inspiration. 

In the travel guide said if you go to Germany, hot wine is a must try drink.

and it was a cold day, so I wanted have something warm drink, so I ordered it.
It was my first time to drink hot red wine.

When I tasted , my cold body immediately got warmer and warmer, and the taste of the hot red wine was delicious, I felt so happy and enjoyed the moment with the wine.

I don't know which brand's wine and how old it was , but it made me feel really wonderful. 

One of my heroes and favorite musician Toshihiko Takamizawa was writing interesting story about his experience with wine.

He loves to drink wine which was made in local towns, countryside of Europe, because during the European trips, he found that he often felt the taste of the original wine in that place was wonderful even though the price is cheaper, but it was in the wine list , and it was even better than very old luxury wines which are very expensive. 

He thinks it's probably that he could feel like that because it is the best fit with the country cozy restaurant's homemade meals, people's voices, the colors of sky.

So when he bought the wine there and brought it back to Japan and tasted in Japan, he didn't feel the same taste like he felt in that place in Europe.

Changing the environment,  the difference of the mood of the place, also changed his feeling..... so seems like wine is a drink that is a drink from the heart.

Each country's wine and each local countryside wine,  may fit better with it's own local origins.  

He noticed the above while he had been having many opportunities to have wines in different countries.  

When he was around 20 years old, whenever he drank wine, he could care less for anything else as long as he could drunk. 

Of course one of the reasons was he could not afford to buy expensive alcohol while he was school student generation, however he had never cared for what kind of alcohol it was, just the fact that it was alcohol was enough. 

He didn't know which is bourbon and which is whiskey, and wine ? always bought the cheapest wine.

Never cared for the taste of it with his friends who have also similar feeling as him. 

He thought alcohol is a drink which from it's strength, is to get drunk at that time.

The more he got drunk, the more he felt like he could not accept to be fading away from the drunk feeling.

He felt like it was like close to the " fighting " feeling while drinking.  

But now, after time flew by and the more he gets older the more he started to have the feeling, which is to drink from the heart, and mood.

Things he has been seeing, feeling, and all his life experience can touch his five senses.

Probably that's how our feeling of taste is evolving.

But then, one of the greatest things about drinking wine is the wonderful taste, even though many wines were made much before we were born.

Such wines, they know the generations and world which we don't know.

and the wines stay through long times, and in the moment when the cork of it is opened, all those generations and the present time get together.

We can drink wine anytime, anywhere, with anyone in the present time with wonderful taste, if it was preserved well. 

Perhaps, this may be able to say about music as well.

If you constantly keep evolving, keep on going, even the music matures (ages ), it will never fade.  "

I really love his quotes.  

He really is an artist.

He wrote this quotes in 1995, but at that time I was not understanding much what he was talking about, but now I really understand his meaning.

I've never thought about why I like to drink alcohol when I was drinking. 

I cared for the taste of it but main reason was to have good feeling.

Drink wine from the heart,

I feel I was drinking the hot red wine from my heart in Rothenburg , Germany, so I got the feeling of being blessed.

Now, as well when I drink wine with my husband , not to get the feeling of drunk but mostly enjoy feeling of the mood and the taste.