We are rarely at an advantage over other workers, but this time freelancers like us who usually work from home at least have prior training to make the coronavirus confinement more bearable. Since March 14, like we did some years ago, many wine professionals and wine lovers in general have established work and rest routines or simple but important things like showering and dressing in outdoor clothes on a daily basis during this stay-at-home time.
These activities are added to others such as doing sports in the living room thanks, YouTube! We cannot travel, nor meet friends for dinner but at least we still have wine, which undoubtedly helps to cope better with life under lockdown.
For as long as the virus keeps us at home, we will publish on our website how the wine community is dealing with this isolation -distributors, hospitality workers, shopkeepers, journalists, educators and wine lovers in general, beyond the producers, who are usually the focus of our articles- and which wines are being opened during this time.
Pieces initialed A. Passionate wine professionals and partners in life, they are behind two of the most interesting addresses for wine lovers in Madrid. During the lockdown, Delia and David have made good use of their time be it cooking "suckling pig on a Sunday, beef cheeks, stew, a healthy dose of vegetables They have even rediscovered themselves as a couple, they say.
David shaved his beard "I hadn't seen my face in five years," he jokes. There was also some spare time to exercise: "One day we found ourselves looking for cardio sessions on Youtube; we had time to exercise, suffer injuries, get better The results were a mixed bag. This year they were planning to celebrate their tenth anniversary in front of the Atlantic Ocean, in the Oia Monastery in June, but the virus has forced them to postpone the event, which will finally take place on August 1st and 2nd.
