Wines - Kids
But
before spending your hard-earned money on wines, consider this: every 10 minutes, 120 kids around the world die from starvation and
saving those kids by nourishing them only costs 19 cents
per day (source: World Food Programme).If the $24,000, 75cl bottle of Romanee-Conti contained 24 sips, that's $1,000 per sip. For the $1,000 that someone spent to take a sip of that wine, over 5,000 kids could have been fed and kept alive, or 175 kids fed for a month and nourished back to health.
Are your wines more in the $240 price range? Each sip of those wines is worth $10, which could have saved the lives of 50 kids or fed 18 kids for a month and nourished them to health. The whole bottle would have saved over 1,200 kids or fed 42 kids for a month.
Wines are an acquired taste. The better wines you drink, the better wines you have to drink. At first, $20 wines impress the taste buds. But if you start to drink $100 wines, $20 wines no longer impress. That doesn't mean that your taste buds are any happier, but just that you need to spend more money to keep them happy.
So why not just stay with the $20 wine? Instead of spending more money to make your taste buds more demanding, why not use the money you save to save kids - tens, hundreds and even thousands of them? Instead of Chateau Cheval Blanc, why not buy Chateau Neuf du Pape? Or instead of Romanee-Conti, buy Sancerre or Chablis, both perfectly fine dry whites?