Sunday, July 28, 2013

Mourning the Wine

Well that’s strange. We’re on day 11 now of quitting smoking. I have noticed how much better some things smell and many things taste. I can keep on eating popadoms now whereas before they were just a fairly tasteless accompaniment to curry. Walking past a fast-food van can be murder. Shop-bought radishes and carrots do actually taste slightly of radish and carrot etc. But apparently things aren’t the same with wine.

One effect of stopping has been an inability to sleep well so, last night, I thought I might as well try drinking some wine to see if that would help. I deliberately left it late before cracking the bottle because I didn’t want to give the alcohol time to work on my will power. I opened a bottle of Hardy’s cabernet shiraz merlot that was a gift from Caroline’s mother and just the sort of thing we liked. The first sip was nice, the second was … um … and thereafter the wine was just far too strong flavoured and heavy. I even put half my second glass back in the bottle. While Caroline persevered with the Hardy’s I opened a bottle of less heavy Dreamtime Ridge. This initially tasted better, but then just went away from me. I sat there sipping it thinking I would rather have a cup of tea.


Maybe I’ll try some of those wines again, but not any time soon.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

You know you could try creating your own wine as well (there's one on our review site scambreakers.com you could take a look at). That way, you can create it to your ever changing taste buds!

Neal Asher said...

I used to make loads of my own wine, but about 1 in 5 five actually tasted nice.

Andrew said...

Giving up smoking was one of the hardest things I have done. It took me about 5 years of lapses to finally nail it. In the end I just found that I wasn't enjoying it any more.

I had to stop drinking for a couple of months to break the link between booze and fags.

Strong wines do take some getting used to again.

Good luck!

Grim's Reality said...

The evening tea sometimes is better than a night out ... I must be getting old.

Neal Asher said...

Andrew, I think my many lapses are behind me ... watch this space.

Graeme, me too.