I recently realized that I enjoy white wines now, which is great because I've been working towards that for a while now. My wife had a head start on me, having a bit of wine with dinner as a teen with her family. Still don't have the taste for beer, but with so many wine and whiskeys to be tried I won't go unparched. I hope to do a wine tour of the Okanagan valley sometime, sounds like those things are fun!
I enjoy white wines a lot but never did when I was just beginning to drink wine. I also LOVE sparkling wines. Enjoy the wine tour, they can be a lot of fun. I used to teach a wine training class for incoming servers at the restaurant I worked at with sounds_sound. He used to always say "I never met a red that didn't want to be a white". -What say you now s_s, still a bigger fan of the reds? P.S. those were the days my friend!
Those were the days for sure. We had a lot of fun back then. As far as the wines go, I'd have to say a really good red is still hard to beat. Something bruised and chocolaty, or even dried and condensed like an Amarone is still tops for me, but I'd most definitely take a big, balanced buttery chardonnay over a cheap cab any day.
Teaching that wine class with you was my first taste of what it's like to do something you truly enjoy and get paid for it. I felt like I was stealing.