Announcing Wine Blogging Wednesday #48: Back to Your Roots
Four years. That's a long time... especially in the world of the Web and blogs. But, next month's edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday will mark the event's 48th edition. Four years of tasting wine together, virtually. Over the years, we've explored many regions and grapes We've had fun themes. We've had more academic ones.
As the founder of this little thing we affectionately refer to as WBW, I'm going to host the 4th anniversary celebration and I'm going to ask you to go back to your roots... your wine drinking roots that is.
We're all wine lovers, but we have gotten where we are today in a variety of ways on a variety of paths. These long, windy paths are littered with wines the world over. I just want you to pick one of the wines from the beginning of your journey, taste it again for the first time in a while, and tell us about it.
Maybe you remember the very first wine you ever tasted. Try it again.
Or maybe there was one wine that you drank a lot of when you were still a wine neophyte. That'd be fun too and I think that's the route I'm going. I don't remember the first wine I ever tasted (though it may have been MD 20/20 and who wants to drink that again?), but I do remeber two other wines from my past that I might revisit. One was the first wine that made me say "A-HA!" and the other is one that I drank a lot of when I was in graduate school. I've seen it a few times in some local shops, so hopefully I can get my hand on a bottle.
To give everyone a bit more time to think about, and dig out a wine for, WBW 48, let's do it on Wednesday, August 13. Post your entry to your blog and either shoot me an email, find me on Twitter, or leave a comment to this post. Don't have a blog? Go over to the Wine Blogging Wednesday site and you can post there.
Go back to your wine-drinking roots people.
Fine choice for the anniversary edition, Lenn. It certainly opens up the door for some scary reviews.
Posted by: David McDuff | July 18, 2008 at 01:01 PM
I'm assuming the 'Night Train' region of Italy is not an option for this one...?
Posted by: 1WineDude | July 19, 2008 at 10:50 PM
Yeah! I love this topic. I can wait to reach back into my memory for that first bottle of... Damn! this is gonna be difficult.
Posted by: Christopher | July 20, 2008 at 02:13 PM
I'm not embarrassed to admit it: without Beringer White Zin, I wouldn't have ever started down the wine path. Thankfully I've long since left that path and found numerous better ones.
I know a lot of people who have started like this (and progressed like this), so this will be interesting to see what people choose to blog about for this session.
PS: it would be interesting to see a follow up WBW about the first wine that made you stand up and say: "WOW... that's what good wine is really about".
Posted by: Foley | July 21, 2008 at 09:02 AM
This sounds fun!
I am glad WBW is still here!! i keep going to the WBW site and there is nothing on it or I can't see it.
We will be there Aug. 13th! In the mean time check out our book give-away, too - it is all about wine!
Posted by: Chez US | July 21, 2008 at 01:48 PM
Great theme!!! Not so sure though that i want to go down that road again....I might just skip some years of horror wines...Will be there on August 13.
Posted by: Anna | July 21, 2008 at 04:36 PM
So I finally decided that I would write about the wicker bottle chianti! I havent participate in a long time to WBW. Do we just send you the links Lenn, or is the WBW the site for the link dumps? More on my wine choice here - http://www.drinksomewine.com/
Posted by: Christopher | July 24, 2008 at 10:05 PM
Hi Lenn,
Any chance of getting the themes updated monthly on the Wine Blogging Wednesday site. Had to google to find out what was going on for WBW 48 as the site hasn't been updated with themes for some time.
WBW 48 sounds a great idea but my ephiphany wine was in 1988 and I drank the last bottle last year.
Posted by: Sue Courtney | August 06, 2008 at 05:48 AM
I'm up, or at least as up I will be today, since there will be follow-ups over the course of the week:
http://mixeddram.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/wine-blogging-wednesday-the-spectacular/
Cheers,
The Scribe
Posted by: The Scribe | August 06, 2008 at 02:04 PM
Great idea, Lenn. I hope I can remember what wine(s) I started with! it's uh, been a while...
Posted by: Doug Cook | August 10, 2008 at 02:27 PM
Hi, my post is up. It was psychologically difficult to spend money on this wine--but, anything for the WBW cause.
Posted by: Diane Letulle | August 12, 2008 at 04:36 PM
Hey man - here's the 1WineDude.com entry, just in the nick of time...
http://1winedude.blogspot.com/2008/08/back-to-my-roots-3-wine-lessons-from.html
Cheers!
Posted by: 1WineDude | August 13, 2008 at 07:07 AM
Hello again Lenn,
Here's the link to my contribution:
http://mcduffwine.blogspot.com/2008/08/wbw-48-and-mfwt-300-blast-from-my-past.html
Thanks for hosting,
McDuff
Posted by: David McDuff | August 13, 2008 at 12:05 PM
Hey Lenn
Great WBW - Happy 4th!! here is my post
http://anythingwine.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/wine-blogging-wednesday-48-%e2%80%93-back-to-your-roots-%e2%80%93-happy-4th-b-day/
John
Posted by: John Witherspoon | August 13, 2008 at 01:10 PM
Hi Lenn - Here is my WBW #48 post. Nice idea and thanks for hosting!
http://bloviatrix.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/wine-blogging-wednesday-48-roots-of-wine-enthusiasm/
Posted by: Sharon | August 13, 2008 at 01:59 PM
http://recentlyconsumed.com/2008/08/14/wbw-getting-back-to-my-roots/
I'm a day late, but for good reason!!
Posted by: Marta Strickland | August 14, 2008 at 09:24 AM
Better Really Damn Late Than Never!
Here's our entry for WBW 48. Happy Anniversary, and thanks for bringing a cool idea to all of us wine geeks!
http://winebizradio.com/articles/winebizradio-20080813-wbw48/
Posted by: Randy | August 17, 2008 at 11:39 PM