I am a wine enthusiast (oh my, that sounds dorky). I subscribe to three wine magazines and listen to multiple wine podcasts per week (feel welcome to laugh). Some people like fixing up old cars or knitting or woodworking — I happen to like pairing the perfect bottle of wine with a well-crafted meal.
I’m not a wine collector, nor am I an alcoholic, I’m simply a wine consumer. I have never purchased a bottle of wine in a store that cost more than $50, and most of the wines I buy are under $20. I like to try new wines, and am interested in the background of a wine almost as much as the flavor.
A few years ago, my husband and I started keeping logs of the wines we tried. If we’re up for the task, we’ll steam the label off the bottle and rubber cement it to the page with our review. If we’re being lazy, we’ll just write the information down and sketch a picture of the label. Each wine gets its own page, and each page contains notes from both of us on flavor, vintage, and pairing. Our system is low-tech, but has been fun to put together. (We also have a separate notebook that I carry in my purse of wines we want to try and the notes we’ve collected about those wines.)
To make a low-tech wine notebook, I recommend hopping onto etsy and checking out their handmade notebooks. The one we are currently using is a laser etched notebook from Modofly (their store should be back up in the very near future).
Bay County Liquors in Maryland has an impressive roundup and review of online and computer software programs that are on the market for tracking the same information that we use in our low-tech notebooks. “Wine Log” and “Wine Snob” are two iPhone applications that track similar information. A benefit of using a digital program is that you can search the data much more easily than you can with a low-tech notebook.
If you’re also a wine enthusiast, check out the list of online and software programs that might suit your needs, download one of the iPhone applications, or consider starting a wine notebook. Any of the three systems will make sure that you never reorder a wine you dislike again!
译文:
追踪你最喜欢的葡萄酒
我是一个葡萄酒爱好者（这听起来很傻）。我订阅了三份关于葡萄酒的杂志，而且每周都收听各种关于葡萄酒的网播（你想笑就笑）。有些人喜欢修理破旧汽车，或者喜欢编织，或者喜欢做木工活。而我却喜欢将精心准备的正餐配上合适的葡萄酒享用。
我不是一个收藏葡萄酒的人，我也不是一个酒鬼。我只是喜欢喝葡萄酒。我从来没有在商店买过一瓶价格超过50美元的葡萄酒。我买的大多数葡萄酒的价格都低于20美元。我喜欢尝试新的葡萄酒，而我对一种葡萄酒的背景的兴趣不亚于对其味道的兴趣。
几年前，我和我的丈夫开始写日志记录我们所尝过的葡萄酒。当我们想做这项记录工作时，我们就会用蒸汽蒸酒瓶，把上面的标签弄下来，然后把标签粘到笔记本上并附上我们的评论。如果我们懒的话，就只记下葡萄酒的信息并简单地画一张标签的草图。每一种葡萄酒都占据了笔记本的一页纸，每页纸都包含了我们关于葡萄酒的味道，年份和搭配的信息。我们的制作方法是低技术含量的，但把这些信息收集在一起很有意思。（我们也有一本不同的笔记本，记录了我们想尝试的葡萄酒和一些我们收集的关于这些葡萄酒的笔记，放在我的钱包里。）
要做一个低技术含量的记录葡萄酒的笔记本，我推荐你们上ETSY网，点击他们的handmade notebooks （手工制做的笔记本）。我们现在用的是Modofly的雷射光光蚀刻笔记本。(他们的商店在不久的将来会得到支持。）
马里兰州的贝县的有大量的关于这种手工制作的笔记本的网上报道和评论，还有相关的计算机软件程序出售，这些程序能追踪我们在低科技的笔记本记录的信息。“葡萄酒日志”和“对酒刻意讲究的人”是两个可以追踪同类信息的网络电话应用软件。使用数字程序的一个好处是，相对于使用低科技的笔记本，你可以更容易地搜索到数据。
如果你也是一个葡萄酒爱好者，你可以检索适合你需要的联机的列单和软件程序，下载一个网络电话应用软件，或者考虑开始制作一本关于葡萄酒的笔记本。这三个系统中的任何一个都可以确保你不会再重新订购你不喜欢的葡萄酒。