Gee, I wish I’d thought of this idea.
The February issue of Food & Wine magazine has an article telling you how to “Become a Wine Expert in 28 Days.”
Stephen Beaumont saw this and did the math:
Just for fun, I added up the month’s wine costs and found that, not including the Sonoma wine-country weekend the author advises the reader to plan on Day 17, the total price of becoming a 28 Day Wine Expert is $1,792, or an average of $64 a day.
Then he imagines “if the story had instead been ‘Become a Beer Expert in 28 Days.'”
Day 2 in (Michael) Steinberger’s story highlights a $40 syrah, for which I might substitute a solid American IPA costing about $3. Day 3’s Tuscan red from Gaja ($38) could be replaced by a robust brown ale or two for $5 or so . . .
His point? “When it comes to purchasing power, the beer aficionado has it all over the oenophile.”
Hey, Stephen, you need to finish the month for us.
Send this wine expert over to Santa Rosa to speak with Vinnie and Natalie…while they’re sipping on $4 beers aged in wine barrels infested with the dreaded Brett most in the wine world detest. They’d never leave!
Choice stuff Stan/Stephen…glad I opted out of F&W for Gourmet instead.
🙂
I’ve always suspected that the wine gene is a very costly mutation of the beer gene. I have the latter, but my son, poor bastard, has the former.