You know how sometimes you get all dressed up and go out and end up feeling like nothing is really working for you? Even if you wear that outfit that usually is a hit and makes you feel like a million bucks? Maybe it is the weather or the moon or a lunar eclipse or maybe it is just a part of life that we all have to deal with, you can't always be on your game and looking like a million bucks.

Now imagine you were a wine and you had only one chance to be opened and consumed and essentially judged. Sometimes wine just doesn't show well and it is no ones fault but it sure does suck to be that wine, or to be drinking that wine.

I gave a friend a bottle of wine and she said that she found it to be a little lacking; not bad necessarily and not undrinkable just not all that. This is one of the instances that being in the wine world kind of sucks. I wanted her to like that wine because I like it. You want people to like what you like because that somehow translates into you being an interesting person with good taste, or something of the sort.

I try to remind myself that wine is a natural product made from grapes, that grow in the ground and are handled by human beings. In my humble opinion this is what makes some wines so amazing; that they are a natural product made by people. But sometimes all of the components just don't come together and the wine is not what it wants to be. So next time you have a bottle of wine that someone raves about and that when you try you are less than thrilled about, give the wine a chance to be less than on it's game. Remember that the wine has probably traveled great distances and sat around in a myriad of different warehouses and trucks before arriving in your hot sweaty hands. Give the wine some slack. As for my friend I did what any good wine lover would do and gave her another different bottle of wine to drink because you do, in the end, always want your friends to drink delicious wine.