This is a personal blog, which started off detailing the travails of a Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET) Diploma student, beginning six weeks from the exam on Unit 3, Light Wines of the World.  That exam is now history, but this blog continues.

Early posts are about study plans, analysis of past exams, and trying to be as prepared as possible, while not wasting time studying things that weren’t likely to turn up on the exam.

Now though, this blog is really just about wine and other things I might happen to be drinking. I love wine. I love drinking it, I love collecting it, and I love talking about it. I even love helping to make it, having worked the last two vintages in a nearby winery. I certainly enjoy drinking things other than wine – spirits, beer, what have you – but wine is something in which I have more personal investment than the others put together.

Most posts are about wine, typically about the wine in a glass or bottle that I’m drinking at the moment.  I’m trying to get into a format of talking about the region, the grape or grapes, the producer, and then the wine as it presents itself in the glass.  Some posts are about other drinks, and some are about wine or drinks more generally, like an account of a day in a winery, or a tasting of too many wines to cover them in any detail individually.  And once in a while I’ll have a meta post about actually putting this blog together.

There are no grand plans for this blog – it’s more a wine journal for my own consumption than anything else.  It works much better than me actually remembering things.  If someone, somewhere, reads it and finds it entertaining, then great, but if not, I’m enjoying myself and that’s what this is really about.

Also, it’s worth noting that I pay for my drinks.  The only exception to that is some tastings I attend are free.  That said, for those tastings, I attend as either as a wine professional (unrelated to blogging) or as a member of the public.  I write in this blog anonymously for the most part, and only a handful of people who know me professionally know I’m writing this.

And a note about the domain itself: while this blog is of very narrow (or non-existent) interest to anyone else, I’ve gone to some trouble to secure drunk.com and drunken.com and have no wish to sell either of them.