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First wine tasting

Last week I went to my first wine tasting. Rieslings. I don’t have much of a taste memory, or a “mind’s nose”. In my head, I can imagine sites and sounds, and “replay” them in my head, but not smells and tastes. Why? I don’t know. But it sure makes comparing wines difficult. At this stage I can compare the dryness, and perhaps what’s called the “finish”, i.e., how long the wine tastes. Other aspects I can only descrive metaphorically. For example, the “spectrum” of flavors. Perhaps with experience I can taste wines in a context, and when I sense will then have meaning. If I were at this stage with music, say, The Beatles, particularly, I would not be able to distinguish betwene early, middle, and late Beatles, and between a John or Paul song. So, I’ve room to grow.

• Circumcision, “taste memory”
• Flaming Lips, Father’s Day, Work, Flow
• David Byrne at Chautauqua
• I was dancing in Larry David’s Bar
• songs from Myers Elementary in the early ’80s