I have been preparing and writing my Capstone paper all this semester. I actually began preliminary research before the end of the fall semester. For anyone who knows me this is an amazing feat of non-procrastination (not that I didn't procrastinate!). I have my paper presentation in my department today at 11am.
So, what have I learned from months of reading and research?
-Wine was always freakin' expensive, and unless you lived in Italy or France, it was reserved for the super-wealthy
-There have always been wine snobs
-Russia doesn't really have any wine-growing regions, since in winter it gets FREAKIN' FREEZING. Ahem.
-Putin and the Romanov Dynasty have more in common than people want to admit: namely that he is a strong ruler who keeps a tight hold on the elite (formerly nobles, currently oligarchs) and who has serious isolationist tendencies. This is related to the wine commentary, I swear!
-There will always BE wine snobs
-Where a decent bottle of wine may cost $50 here, it can cost $100 or more in Moscow. Damn that oil wealth.
Wow. All that reading summed up in six points.
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Why would Russia need wine when it has vodka. . .
Actually, that's part of why they don't have as much as they could have. But 40% of their alcohol imports are of wine. See, they make everything ELSE really well at home: Beer, Mead, Vodka, Liqueurs...Samogon...why import THAT sh!t?
Oops-actually it's 60% of the imports. Darn those ageing memory cells!
Easy with the aging memory cells. . .
Wait, what was I talking about? :)
I really don't remember. Some days it's a struggle to remember my name these days.
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