I want to do a California wine country tour.
There's an old style of Belgian beer called Lambic that is often made with fruit but it's fermented in an organic way where it isn't controlled that well and some of them are terrific, more like wines in some way. But my friend once decided that he was going to just fool around with this way of making beer and he unveiled his masterpiece one night at a party. He opened the jug and poured an inch of this stuff into a pitcher and we could not get it to stop foaming, it was like the thing, had to sit it in the sink for what seemed like an eternity. We were all laughing so hard it was well worth his red face. There was a foot of foam and an inch of beer, but had the pitcher been taller, there is no telling how tall that beer would have been. We were playing games with how to get at the beer. He has not heard the end of that.
Anyway, one of the ways they say you can learn to detect flavors in wine is to buy a fruit or spice and drop it in an inexpensive wine. I intend to do that with slate and gunmetal.