Thursday, February 12, 2009

I am just not highbrow enough for this sort of thing...

I had my wine tasting class today. It was quite entertaining, and the prof is a lovely aging man who wears cozy knit sweaters and knows lots about wine. 

I think he makes it up as he goes along. 

For this one red we were tasting, he made us close our eyes while we sniffed and imagine a setting. 

"This wine smells of walking through the forest in autumn, the smell of leaves and rotting wood, and mushrooms, maybe truffles...ah yes, and there is a wild boar nearby!"

Um, what?