{"id":4840,"date":"2013-06-12T23:48:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T22:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4840"},"modified":"2013-06-12T23:48:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T22:48:20","slug":"its-the-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/its-the-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s the wine"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend Vin made a post on a forum where we’re both members about how much he enjoys Lacryma Christi red wine from Italy, the land of his fathers and it got me musing about the subject. This is what I posted over there….<\/em><\/p>\n

Many years ago I worked in the wine trade as a marketing product manager, when we were trying to develop sales through supermarkets. This was nearly 40 years ago so it was a bit of an up-hill slope at the time, and the boom in supermarket sales came later, partly perhaps because of some of our efforts. But one of the best things that came out of it for me was that it gave me a chance to learn a lot about wines, as well as the opportunity to drink quite a lot of it too! That knowledge has come in very useful over the years and my enjoyment of wines of all kinds has increased as time has gone by. Funnily enough, although I have drunk and enjoyed wines from all countries, before coming to France I was drinking more American and New World wines and almost no French at all. Since coming here, all I now drink is French! Even the local Intermarche supermarket supports a huge range of wines (including foreign) and what amuses me is watching the tourists, especially the Brits, perusing the selection on offer. They have been used to the idea that you can’t get a half-decent wine back home for ‘under a tenner’ (under \u00a310) and they invariably end up popping several bottles into their baskets, all at around 7-8\u20ac a bottle and think what great bargains they are picking up in France.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, we ‘locals’ do things a bit differently. For example, today I picked up a 3 litre wine box containing AC Cotes du Tarn Gamay for the princely sum of 7.99\u20ac that would have cost even less per litre if I’d gone for the 5 litre box. You can take my word that it’s a lovely full, fruity red with a smoothness that belies its age because it’s very young, of course. Has to be, to be sold at that price. It’s been a year since I arrived in France and one of my pleasures is being able to work my way through the Intermarche wine shelf. I’ve still got a long way to go though – but I don’t mind because I’ve got all the time in the world \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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I added the above pic to the post a bit later and mentioned that I was then drinking the wine – which I still am. So Cheers all \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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