Welcome to Wine and Hope

For those who do not know me, my name is Hope and I am a Senior at The University of Oklahoma. For the Fall 2017 semester I am taking a class on the geography of wine, I know SUPER cool, and yes Mom and Dad I am totally getting three upper-division elective credits for this class! A part of this super fun course is to make a blog where I am to write/blog about drinking wine, the fact that I am getting academic credit for this is still blowing my mind. This post is to just introduce myself and to establish how much of a wine newbie/beginner I am.

Coming from a British background, I have grown up in a household where wine is a common and normal drink to have at dinner/mid-day/it's 5 o'clock somewhere. Growing up I was always offered a glass with meals, but it wasn't until around the age of 18/19 that I started to actually like the taste of wine. If you even classify the super sweet Moscato (which you can, but for all those wine snobs out there you probably just classify Moscato as children's juice), I drank as an actual wine. I am on the verge of turning 22 and I still do favor the sweet white wines, and vodka but that is a different matter, but know it is probably time to venture out of my comfort zone...and that means trying to find a red I like as well as trying more dry whites. 

So I hope I have elicited enough interest/excitement for you to follow me on this journey, I hope to keep this blog upbeat and fun, but at the same time focused on wine and how my naive palate for wine will hopefully change! My goal for this semester is to venture out from the fruity sweet white wines I call my wine home, and to find some reds or even dry whites that I can nonchalantly name and recognize at the dinner table among actual adults. 

If you are still reading this post, thank you. And if you have any suggestions for my naive and immature palate, please email me! I am taking all the help I can get on this winetastic adventure (did you see what I did there? Yes I know, lame, but still it made you smile)!

-Hope