A concentrated nose
Kaat showed me a nice blogpost about a concentrated nose of blackberries, coffee and violets. If you understand Dutch (yes, that obscure language spoken in, among others, Belgium and the Netherlands), then I would kindly invite you to read the post, which can be found at Edward van de Vendel Blog.
If this blogpost would have been a wine, then it would be a supple, full bodied and easygoing wine. One of these that just beg for a second glass…(and third and …). In short, recommended reading.
This great written piece got me thinking about denominators for wine. Actually a “concentrated nose” is quite a common one when spending some time under winelovers. When I dig into my memory, a lot of more particular denominators pop up.
What do you think for example about:
- the air of an inner tube,
- crushed ants,
- a hair dried labrador,
- ballet shoes of a young female ballerina (yes, not an old lady and not a male ballerina, these shoes smell quite differently),
- a plastic bag filled with used diapers?
Do you have preferred denominators for wine? Or do you have encountered some pretty strange ones? If so, I would kindly invite you to post a comment…
Have a nice wine with a concentrated nose today!
If you enjoyed this post, make my day and buy me a glass of wine.
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Héél hartelijk bedankt voor het zo vriendelijk lezen van mijn posting!!!
Thanks for reading and commenting my posting.
Viva el nesa concentrada!
Edward I really enjoyed your post, as a winelover it is nice to see that the words you commonly use are not always so “common”. Nice to put my (concentrated) nose on this fact!
Keep up the good writing!
Gary Vaynerchuck from winelibrarytv can get you some nice quotations (they beat the ballet!)
“the nose is really like a tropical forrest and you are running through it naked and happy about it” alsace riesling
“it’s kind of like the oakmonster took his kids to the horserange and kind of stepped in some poop. that’s exactly what this wine smells like” - red zinfandel - russian river
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Wow, these are some great denominators for wine.
Remind me when I once described the wine of having a kind of dusty taste which you can breathe when a herd of buffalos just has trotted along.
As regards wine library tv: click here to take a look at it. Gary Vaynerchuck (watch out how to pronounce his name) is awesome.