Wine

[Hoople]

That looks so nice in there. Thanks Raz. Can't wait to get mine. There are many flavors I just can't isolate yet. Slate is one of them. And flint... FLINT?!!! Gunmetal?!!! Oh come on. And I will tell you in my next post something about the taste of slate in German wines... a misperception I had.

I remember spending half an hour on the beach with friends trying to figure out what it was I was tasting in this wine we were drinking. Everyone was having fun and I had to go off by myself because they were telling me to shut up already and enjoy myself. I WAS ENJOYING MYSELF! Suddenly, after paging through the mental inventory of aromas and flavors stored in my brain, I made it back to childhood. VOILA! It was the taste of these candies I loved as a kid, violets. Tasted EXACTLY like them. I think it's the scent and flavor of lavender, which is relatively common in some varietals but this was somehow SO intense it was like having a brick building so close to your face all you see is something resembling the surface of Mars. Once I got it and came back and told them, everyone was like "OH YEAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! EXACTLY!"

So, I could really use that wheel. So much I just don't get yet. So, we start where we are and move forward.

Thanks again.