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Drinking your way around the world? If you’ve ever felt like a fish out of water in wine bars or cellar doors around the world this is the podcast for you. Think of it as a wine-drinking cheat sheet.
Make sure you hit the comments and tell us some of your best wine stories.
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Hey Craig,
Great podcast for the uninitiated. I actually worked in a vineyard in Provence (a stone’s throw from Aix-en-Provence) and sadly, still know almost nothing about the nectar of the Gods. Upon completing a year of study abroad in Aix in 2003, I was out of cash and desperate to get back to Corsica to hike the GR20. So I pitched my tent at a local campground for 1 euro a night and biked to work in these endless, gorgeous vineyards at 5 a.m., under the shadow of St. Victoire. That’s where the picturesque part ends–the work was brutal. I worked from 5 a.m. to 2 p.m. pulling leaves off of the wine stems. The heat is intense even in late May, and the pesticides can actually cause rashes and headaches. It is a great way to fund your travels, though. In two weeks I earned enough to hop the ferry to Corsica and keep going for another month.
So, the point here is that in early and late summer all over France there are jobs either harvesting and stamping grapes I-Love-Lucy style or doing the less glamorous leaf-pulling and weeding work I did. The other point here is–take advantage of it while you’ve got it!! I completely took advantage of the fact that I could score a decent bottle in Aix for 5 euros and just swilled it. Tragedy, now that I’m in China and stuck with beer and baijiu as drink options unless I want to pay a minor fortune.
Cheers,
Sarah
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