Go to Cambridge to become a wine loving scientist

Go to Cambridge to become a wine loving scientist

CambridgeUniversity, a myth for research, didactics ….. and for wine: there 3 million pounds in wine are consumed every year an our enthusiasm is sky high

 

Read for you by Donatella Cinelli Colombini

If we consult the QS World University Rankings, we see that the most prestigious study centre on her majesties territory is always among the first universities in the world together with MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology and theUniversityofHarvard.

 

Easily done!!! Not only does it prepare the best mathematical and technological minds, but there is fun to be had too! 7,9 million pounds spent on wine in three years. The CambridgeUniversity includes around 30 colleges where there is a general passion for great bottles even though there are some cases which leave you speechless:  King’s College, with its 402 students, buys every year £338.000 of wine. Evidently Bacchus nectar is good for brains otherwise how could they have the record in Nobel Prizes, with 89 winners? But, where do all these bottles go? Obviously at the banquets for conventions and in the degree parties, but not only.

Cambridgehas a Wine Society, a type of club, which organizes 2-3 wine tastings per month. French wines are more frequent, but on February 14^th, for St Valentines, a Piedmont dinner was programmed with a tasting of Barolo and other Italian wines. The most amazing thing is the annual dinner in the hall at Clare College, here the protagonists are, depending on the year, Chateau Haut-Brion, Chateau Cheval Blanc, Chateau Mouton Rothschild … in other words these future geniuses do themselves proud, no doubt about it!

Among the excellent minds of teachers and scholars there are some real wine lovers for which there is an association, more concentrated on wine, and less formal and party-loving than the former; the CU Blind Wine Tasting Society. The wine lovers in the super British universities take things so seriously that they organize a wine challenge betweenCambridgeandOxford, with a blind tasting. This is much better than the traditional boat race on theThames, which has now been surpassed!

 

TheCambridgeUniversityhas also a wine shop that for the past 50 years has offered good buys. In the web site, among the bottles on special offer, there are also bottles of Chianti and Verdicchio.

So, studying in the fourth oldest university inEuropehas its advantages and they are not only scientific!