By Michael Grayden + Nikole Herriott originally posted December 27, 2017
We did it! We made it through 2017! Not without quite a bit of wine though, and if 2018 is anything like this year, there’s going to be a lot more of it. That’s why New Year’s Wine Resolutions are more important than ever. Sure, we can make “real” resolutions and pretend like we’re (I’m) going to turn our (my) invoices in on time, but everyone knows that’s never going to happen (nope). But wine is for sure happening, and these low pressure, juice cleanse-free, resolutions will help make 2018 one of the best wine drinking years yet.
“Drink more water” is on top of my resolution list every year, and while my insatiable sparkling water habit has helped with that, most wine tastings do not have cans of La Croix on hand. But drinking water is as essential to drinking wine as drinking wine itself. Well, at least essential to drinking wine, and really tasting it, and remembering it, and not getting wasted.
Amy Atwood of Amy Atwood Selections taught me a great trick this year—after every glass of wine, fill that same glass with water. It’s easy to ignore a separate glass of water and twirl your finger for your next pour, but drinking water from your wine glass makes it impossible for you to get more wine without hydrating first. It’s smart, and it’s easy. If you don’t like the idea of a little water in your glass before your next wine, you can always ask for a rinse pour—a small pour of the wine you’re about to have that you swirl in the glass to clear it of the water or previous wine, and then you can dump that pour or drink it, it’s fine.
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