Haley's Fellowship of the Wine

Welcome to my blog of wine! In case you were wondering, yes, I like Lord of the Rings a whole heck of a lot. I felt it was a fitting name because I recruited some of my friends to help me with this class (like finding wines, wineries, and making dinners to test wines with). They were extremely enthusiastic, but that's probably because they're all really big fans of wine. In fact, they made fun of me for enrolling in this course because I am not. My first experience with wine was smuggling a bottle of Fish Eye white wine into the dorms freshman year. A friend from high school gave it to me and another friend, Evan (who is included in the current group that is helping me). We shoved it into a backpack and brought it to Evan's dorm room, where we poured it into Hideaway Pizza cups and tried to guzzle it. At that point, I had VERY LITTLE experience with alcohol, and one hundred percent expected it to taste like sparkling grape juice. I was oh-so-very wrong. It was really bitt...