Tuesday 18 March 2008

Tasting notes

The following is a list of handy tasting terms for use in describing wine or scent:

 

Green apples

Seedless grapes

Redcurrants

Lemon oil

Cut grass

Blackcurrants

Popcorn

The feet of a 12-year-old girl splashing in a rock pool

Warm stones

Cordite

A big fat fatty

Crushed revolution

Cat piss

An elderly lady's change-purse

That difficult second album

Bacon cooked by an Irishman

Old newspaper, in facsimile, to mark yours or a friend's birthdate

Eritrea

The last breath of a dying seal-pup

The Aegean Sea

Civet

Psyche

Bathtime

Cod

Warm tar

Rude human parts

Defeat