{"id":2071115,"date":"2023-04-28T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T23:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/eastmidlands\/?p=2071115"},"modified":"2023-04-28T07:23:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T06:23:55","slug":"welcome-to-thebusinessdesk.com-wine-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/eastmidlands\/news\/2071115-welcome-to-thebusinessdesk.com-wine-club","title":{"rendered":"A honeymoon experience that led to a love of wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Edd Simpson, Founder and Managing Director, Barrique Fine Wines<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2071118\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2071118\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2071118\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/edd-barrique-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/edd-barrique-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/edd-barrique-200x279.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/edd-barrique-300x419.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/edd-barrique-500x698.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/edd-barrique-600x838.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/edd-barrique.jpg 716w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2071118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edd Simpson, Barrique Wines<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We wish you a warm welcome to the first edition of TheBusinessDesk.com Wine Club newsletter. Each month we will bring you everything you need to quench your thirst for all things wine including reviews, offers and much more.<\/p>\n<p>In this first episode we wanted to pose the question why wine? What\u2019s all the fuss about? Why is it worth investing time, energy, and hard-earned money into? Why develop an interest in what is in essence fermented grape juice? It\u2019s a valid question, to many, especially those who have only ever experienced wine of a certain level.<\/p>\n<p>I can only explain from a personal perspective. My appreciation of wine was non-existent before a honeymoon trip to Dubrovnik, Croatia back in 2012. I couldn\u2019t tell you more than whether it was white or red, nor did I have any interest to. Yet in a bar called D\u2019Vino, down a small side street, my wife and I decided to buy a wine tasting experience, three local whites, three local reds and a sommelier to guide. I\u2019m not sure I can pinpoint why this experience had such a profound impact \u2013 perhaps the link between terroir (everything that influences vine growing and arguably winemaking) and the liquid in my glass.<\/p>\n<p>The fascination for the flavours, or even the ritual of exploring a wine. Whatever it was, my life hasn\u2019t been the same since. I spent the rest of the honeymoon trying different local producers, returning home I attended tastings, read wine books, and started building my own collection in a small bathroom cupboard I\u2019d racked out with great pride. From there I studied, gained qualifications, tasted a lot and left my career in teaching to embark on a career in the wine trade, all for the love of wine.<\/p>\n<p>Good and great wines offer so much because they take so much to create. From selecting the correct site to grow your vines, to tending to them in the plethora of possible ways dependent on the conditions of that vintage. Doing everything possible to allow place to speak in the glass. The subtle handprint of the producer guided by philosophy and heritage. Then there\u2019s the experience in the glass, the changing complexity of aromas that evolve with time. The carefully woven textures magnified with certain food pairings. The moment in history when that bottle was crafted.<\/p>\n<p>Wine brings people together, it\u2019s for sharing, ever present as relationships are developed. Yet wine is still a mystery, how can fermented grape juice amount to so much? How can it speak so clearly of whence it came? The wine world is ever changing and therefore will never be fully experienced or understood, it is a journey and one well worth embarking on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/barriquefinewines.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2113926\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/apr_23\/Wine-Offer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barrique Fine Wines founder Edd Simpson welcomes you to TheBusinessDesk.com Wine Club<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2071132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,120901],"coauthors":[65],"class_list":["post-2071115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-wine-club"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the 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