Wine and How to Impress.

So. I never really mentioned this even back into the Noows days but my work life has wandered some like many of us I imagine.

I started in Engineering, then into Software Development (shitty coder), then to Management but the whole time I've paralleled in the restaurant and bar business and the last half dozen years I've been there essentially full time. I still see myself as a geek or a manager but at the ripe old age of mid-40s I am settling into the idea that I'm probably never going back to the cubicle nor the game of watching those that dwell there.

So. I am WSET level three and Master's Court Certified in wine stuff and might as well answer some shit here if anyone cares. When I finally retire I might go for my MW (like a Phd for wine ... yet so wrong that there are no people that do it other than for show) For our geeks, it's kinda like bullshit certs but harder and stupider at times. Go get a Cicerone cert if you want to impress hipsters.

Anyhow. Wine **is** bullshit at times and it is not at times. I think the essential thing to know when ordering wine in either a work or dating environment is that the price is the thing that matters. Stupid? Of course. Still, we are the people that spent thousands of hours for a Ykesha. We are also the people that made those that got those early digital goods into heros and spawned and industry worth (now and perhaps sadly) billions.

Not a bunch of money. Billions.

EDIT: Shit. Forgot to say: AMA essentially. I know wine well, I know business etiquette well.

Domaine Serene is actually really good shit. It's overpriced up here (like ~$120CDN on my list I think?) but I am a huge fan of Oregon PN in general and definitely love their offerings from 2.1k+. I should be at PinotFest next year if all goes well and largely because we've moved cases of DS specifically in a place that sells 90% cabs.

Still, it's a bit old school for the cutting-edge types. If you are doing the impress a possible client thing in NA then Oregon PN is still viable but Domaine Serene or Tristae or similar is too "boring" by far. It's back to Burgundy or NZ small producers or even weird German or AUS. To be "that guy" ordering Oregon PN, it shouldn't likely be DS. It's too known at this point.

Sure, sure, it took me like an hour and a half to get a mask on my *second* rogue out of LG from character creation.

The first ykesha? Fuck me, I can't sadly remember most of my early companions but those were some fun times even if they did ruin all our lives in some ways. Still, it wasn't like farming the fuck out of rubicite or later that revamp of CT. It was cutting edge in the day though and paid appropriately. Hell, the first one I sold in EC fully funded my Necro that I never did raid with.