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Resolutions for 2020 A New Year, and Dave Biggs shares his resolutions for wine drinking…
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ell, we made it through 2019. It was a traumatic year, not without its problems, but with regular tributes to those two reliable old deities, Bacchus and Dionysus we survived. At the start of a new year it’s traditional to make a list of resolutions we don’t really expect to keep for more than a week. I always resolve not to let my bank balance slip into overdraft, for example, but by January 24th I’ve run out of cat food and can hardly expect my cats to suffer for my financial untidiness, so there goes the first resolution.
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Wine resolutions are a different matter. We do need to start the New Year with a list of rules that will ensure a year of happy, healthy and safe drinking. If our drinking is not happy or safe, maybe we shouldn’t be doing it at all (Just joking! Ridiculous thought!) So here’s my personal list of wine resolutions for 2020: Resolution 1: Drink More Water. This may sound like a silly start to a list of wine resolutions, but it’s a serious one. Rather than slurp my way mindlessly through a bottle of good Pinotage or Cab Franc, I will fill my glass with water whenever I have drained the wine in it. There are two reasons for this. It rinses the glass and cleans my palate, so I enjoy the next glass more. It also slows the pace of my drinking, which is probably a good idea.
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