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How Cold should my Wine be?
Wondering how cold your wine needs to be for your online wine tasting? Every wine has a sweet spot and at the ideal temperature it’ll sing like the wine-maker wanted. Let’s look at the why and how of serving wine at its optimal temperature. Too cold… Were you ever served an ice cold white wine, only to notice…
Get Comfy with Wine
A wine Blog and Community of Women who love Wine
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This is how it all started…
I started working in the wine industry completely by fluke back in January 2004. At that time I received a call for an interview for a job organising wine events in China. That job opened up my eyes to wine and a couple of months later I was in the world’s largest wine exhibition with a group of wine lovers finding myself saying “I know nothing about wine, I can’t tell you what I’m smelling” but they gave me a few tips and taught me that a little bit of knowledge could get me a long way to understanding more about the fascinating world of wine.
A couple of year’s later and I had passed my WSET levels 2 and 3 as well as the Italian Sommelier Association qualification however I still preferred to stay in the background. Surrounded by so many of the world’s leading press and experts for my day job, I was always in awe of how much they knew and there was to know about wine.
A decade or so later we were thrown into the pandemic and within a week of the lockdown being in place, I’d set up Quaranvino, the first online wine dinners bringing wine producers together with wine lovers for online dinners during those dark times. It was then that I realised that I loved bridging the gap between the people who make wine and the people who drink it, helping to put wines and regions in contexts and giving wine drinkers those nuggets of knowledge for them to understand the world of the wine producers.
Get Comfy with Wine is a continuation of that. In May 2023 I launched a facebook community mainly to keep in contact with the amazing women I’d met during those Quaranvino days but also to share tips and stories with women around the world who enjoy drinking wine.
On this website you’ll find a few of my ideas and experiences along with articles which were originally published on the Quaranvino website years ago. I’ll update it as I go along with news of what is going on in the community, wineries I meet and wines I love. I’m a big believer that wine is meant to be shared and I thank you for being here for the ride.
Faye X
Faye Cardwell
Wine Lover & Wine Events organiser