Today on the blog we’re mixing it up a bit and talking about one of life’s greatest pleasures: wine. I’ve always enjoyed a good glass of wine (let’s be honest, in college it was more like a bag haha!), and a lot of that stems from my dad’s love for wine. Growing up my dad almost always had a glass of wine at dinner after coming home from a long day of work at his butcher shop. My dad started drinking wine at a very young age, and I love telling the story as to why: My dad grew up on a farm in Portugal where he worked very hard, long days. Times were tough back then and his parents did the best they could with ten children to put food on the table. The dinner table was crowded with ten children, so it wasn’t uncommon that someone would accidentally knock something over. When the wine would get knocked over and spill my grandfather would tell his children to drink it from the table before it hit the floor so that it wouldn’t go to waste! It’s hard for my dad to tell stories of his childhood, I can see the agony in his eyes when he relives the memories of those tougher times, but this story is my favorite because he actually laughs every time he tells it. As much as my dad loves wine, he’s so strong-willed that last year he actually gave it up for lent. I threw him a surprise 60th birthday party and it was so hard for him to not drink with his family, but he didn’t give in to the temptation. My dad is the strongest person I know and I could never put into words how much he inspires me and what he truly means to me.
If you love wine as much as my dad and I do then you need to become a member of Winc. Winc is a wine club that offers a monthly subscription for you to receive up to 4 bottles delivered right to your door (free shipping!). You can start by answering 6 questions so that Winc can assess your unique tastes. From there you can either choose the 4 bottles that you’d like or, based on your palate profile they’ll select the bottles for you. They guarantee your satisfaction so that you never have to pay for a bottle that you don’t like. You can skip a month free of charge and cancel your subscription at any time.
The belief at Winc is that the experience of getting a great bottle of wine should be as simple as enjoying one, and I couldn’t agree more! They create over a hundred wines and make the experience of exploring wine easy and pleasurable so that you can spend more time enjoying it in your glass. What’s better than that?!
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