About – The Wine Trotter

rocket If you open this page it is because your curiosity in knowing who’s behind this blog is much bigger than your love for wine and its world.

Just kidding! I know there’s nothing stronger than your love for wine.

… but you are keeping on being curious, so it will not be me to question and not to satisfy this interest.

I am an over-40-years-old (how much “over” would depend on when you will be reading these words) Italian aerospace engineer, based in Amsterdam (The Netherlands, not NY).

Aerospace what?!

OK, OK, I am a rocket scientist, but, since at the moment I am not working on any rocket, I prefer to use the wider definition of “Aerospace Engineer”, i.e. engineer on whatever is supposed to fly in space.

… and normally I succeed: that stuff fly over our heads.

I know what you are thinking: “the bottom line is the same: call it as you like, you are a nerd.”

OK, I take it. I am a nerd.

Can we still be friends?

So, how the Hell a rocket scientist (aerospace engineer, please) had the idea to dive and swim in the world of wine?

Well, like almost all the wine lovers on Earth: addiction.

We use more romantic and poetic expression like “love”, “passion”, “devotion”, but, at the end, we are hiding behind words our addiction to this nectar.

“OK, you love it. Drink it, enjoy it, but don’t bother”.

Did you already forget?

“Forget what?!”

I – am – a – nerd!

You don’t become a nerd because you have studied rocket science. You study that because you were born nerd.

And as all (and, when I say “all”, I mean ALL) the nerds, once you love something, you start studying it, analyzing it, and examining any single aspect of it.

So I started reading about it, studying all the processes, visiting cellars, talking to producers, sharing opinions with people who had the same enthusiasm.

Of course all of this not stopping drinking and tasting (with time I realize that “drink” and “taste” are not at all synonyms).

I just do it with other eyes and (I hope) better trained nose and taste-buds.

Concerning the reason that led me opening this blog, I leave you going to this page: Another wine blog.

For the time being … cheers!