i worked at a wine distributer on the upper east side in manhattan in the late aughties you could see the changes happening in real time the industry was movi

i worked at a wine distributer on the upper east side in manhattan in the late aughties you could see the changes happening in real time the industry was moving toward what they called 'priced to drink' gone were the days of hoarding wine for years to be opened in fanfare, now buyers wanted bottles you could drink the same night you bought it the best wine i have ever had was when i was working as a bus boy at a fine dining restaurant one of my tables was a regular who always payed the corking fee and brought in six bottles of his own.. our sommelier loved him as i was clearing his table he stopped me and offered me a sip of his last bottle on the table what i tasted was unlike any wine i had ever tried to say it was 'good' would be untrue, the wine tasted like dirt, or more specifically white granite crushed into a fine dust i could taste the color of the stone in the earth that the vine was grown