The Acquired Taste of Wine

By Olga Antoniadou

I'm quite a culprit sometimes, and I find it ridiculously funny to tease our dog Ares, who looks at me suspiciously, and you can tell he knows I'm teasing and that he doesn't enjoy it. He decided to join our small, childless family about five years ago and was particularly persistent in finding himself a home. Nick and I had often contemplated taking in a pet, but had decided that, as we both work long hours, it would be utterly selfish to have a pet that spends all day alone. Life so has it that it brings undesirable obstacles our way and Ares happened to be looking for a home at the most in/appropriate of times. If he hadn't twice broken my leg and put me through surgery, I would have probably never entered a Jancis Robinson competition and maybe never considered putting my thoughts down in writing. So, he changed my life, and our lives, in many ways.