Wine for anniversaries and Champion's League finals: celebrating FC Inter

What a vintage, ragazzi miei! The grapes can do what they like in 2010 as so far I got married and FC Inter won the Champion’s League final, following its victories in the Coppa Italia and Serie A. In the future, my new husband and I will celebrate an anniversary on May 8th and memories of an emotional Inter victory on May 22nd.

I know of more than one sommelier and journalist who are die-hard Inter fans and I have yet to discover with what wine they celebrated the Champion’s League victory. I suspect the head of our branch of the Italian Sommeliers’ Association drank something very special.

We, on the other hand, in a sort of combined Italian-Anglo tradition (but don’t tell the Italians) stressed over pizza and later celebrated over beer. And then we joined the impromptu celebrations in the town, getting stuck in a traffic jam as people hit horns, played the Inter anthem loud from their cars and rang cow bells (nothing can ever make enough noise in a situation like this). It was bigger than the 2006 Italian World Cup victory when my husband and I were at the beginning of our love story.

Since we got married, we’ve got a few fine bottles of wine to keep and then drink, thanks to a dear friend of mine and a couple of purchases of my own so we’re well set-up for future reminiscing. And hopefully some celebrations should Inter ever make it a second time. None of its champagne, and most of its nebbiolo, but we can all celebrate in our own way. Thanks to Inter and, of course, “my Milito”.