Just imagine it's a first date Sedi. Start slowly admiring what both of you have brought to the table. Sedi, don't ruin the date with any old wine glass. You have to look your best, bring out something special, something befitting of the exhilaration of anticipation. (Although that has been questioned. More on that latter.) So a fine wine glass is necessary. As someone who has been on the odd date, I like to bring my Rogaska expert pinot out. No muckin' around there, imbibing royalty. Large bulb, fine stem, no thorns. Sounds like a flower doesn't it, perhaps a rose, perhaps befitting the fernery that surrounds the initial vine in a winery. A femine touch to perhaps the most feminine of wines. For another time, a description of varietal and a person who befits the name.
So, as you pour you admire. But before that, just like a date, scent and colour are so important. Does the wine come dressed in moccasins smelling of the perfumery at David Jones? Does it come with knee high boots from Peppermint Grove. Is the oak the finest French or tossed in pieces? How do I think of this **** when I haven't even had a drink. I dunno.
Then the excitement really takes over. All your friends have told you about this new date. Cheap, sure. Cheap and nasty, hopefully not. Premature exciteability was never your problem. But in the back of your mind, your pals have taken her out and givin her the flick after one date. That can't be good, as you were looking for a longer term relationship, possibly even twelve dates. Like one of my stock market expressions, don't pass over someone's old girlfriend. You take the next vital move. Your lips are about to lock. The tension is building and building, all these voices in one ear saying, chanting, screaming at you but in the other ear there is just one...... one lonesome, solitary, quivering, almost angelic voice that sounds like the lead singer of Pearl Jam. He loves the number 50. He is cautiously optimistic because he knows one thing that's very important. This new wine leaves the Top Paddock for dead and as far as I am concerned, I believe him. Call me a fool if you may, but his reputation is on the line here.
So back to you Sedimental. We see your lovely pictures with the lovely wines you drink. We love the cows, the wild animals. But what we will really love is for you to give us all the inside story of how your first date ended up. .........
