Homeless wines: vinos homeless (eng-spa-esp)
Nicojames
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Coming to Spain to learn Spanish as a student was a beautiful experience. It was fun learning a new language and getting to grips with ordering beer and Sangría at a bar. Going out painting the town was also njoyable, while learning the culture through people and glasses of whatever was put in front of me. This all changed however, when I decided to seriously work in Spain, get a job and a real life. The true test came when I was applying for citizenship while working for a multinational company. One of my colleagues told me that once I became a citizen, I would no longer be considered an immigrant foreigner, but rather a normal foreigner. That really did made me feel great.
I sat down and thought where I was really from. With a Caribbean father and German mother, brought up most of my life in the UK, I really didn't know where I came from. This was a real problem towards the age of 20, and I later learned to live with it. When I came to Spain however, they had the perfect definition of my situation: "You are a HOMELESS! "I now wonder how many wines suffer a similar fate. I could name quite a few which only resemble in part a destiny of this nature: Wines derived from Spanish Vineyards, but speak Australian English. They're trying to forget their history and become something they're not. Or is this their new identity? Forgetting Don Quijote, Sun, Sea, Fun, Paella and Tapas together with their Castillian Spanish. It seems to be a reduction of a twangy cross between American and British English. The Rules have changed. Let's become easy to drink, forget terroir (isn't that terroirable?), uproot our roots and change for better or for worse? In short letés be HOMELESS... What do you think? I look forward to your comments.
