sferik: Adventures in Wine
Q1: Where did you grow up?
A1: upstate New York (Woodstock)
Q2: What was the first time you remember drinking wine?
A2: On a road trip across the US with my two best friends, Nate and Will. We spent a day wine tasting in the Russian River Valley and then brought a bottle to the beach where we drank and watched the sun set over the Pacific.
Q3: When did you start to like wine?
A3: in college
Q4: Where do you drink wine mostly?
A4: both at home and at restaurants, with dinner
Q5: What are your favorite types of wine? Varietals? Regions?
A5: reds: I'll try just about anything.
whites: I typically drink white wine in the summer months. I like pinot gris and sauvignon blanc and stay away from buttery chardonnay as well as anything too sweet.
Q6: What are your favorite kinds of food?
A6: I like spicy food: Indian, Mexican, Thai, Burmese, Chinese.
I also enjoy sushi, seafood, and California cuisine.
I'm a pescatarian.
Q7: What are your favorite restaurants?
A7: in San Francisco: Orson, Bacar, Greens, Chaya, Salt House, Anchor
Q8: What is your favorite wine and food pairing?
A8: I love eating fresh oysters on the half shell with a mineraly pinot grigio or sauvignon blanc or white Burgundy.
Q9: Do you cook? If so, what kind of food and for whom?
A9: As you can probably guess from my "favorite" restaurant list, I eat out much more than I cook. When I do cook, it's never anything special. I often drink wine at home with cheese, takeout, or before going out to dinner.
Q10: If you were stranded on a desert island, what one type of food/wine would choose to have?
A10: Such a tough question to answer...I think I'd go with lobster. Not sure what kind of wine. Something that goes well with lobster, I suppose.
Q11: What are your favorite wine memories?
A11: I have some great memories of days spent wine tasting in Sonoma. Many good memories involved champagne, though I'm not a big champagne drinker (too sweet). Perhaps my best wine memory is making wine via Crushpad. The whole experience was fun and very educational.
Q12: Do you have any wine-related disasters?
A12: A few broken glasses, but no real disasters.
Q13: Which are your favorite Bottlenotes wines?
A13: I haven't tried any yet...
