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AGNES PEILLET
Wine
it’s all about
perspective
Have you noticed how adjectives
used to describe wine are the
same ones a man would choose
to praise a woman?
‘Sweet.’ ’Brilliant.’ ‘Elegant.’ ‘Fullbodied.’ ‘Exuberant.’ ‘Luscious.’ And
my personal favourite—‘Complex.’
Have you noticed how adjectives
used to describe wine are the same
ones a man would choose to praise
a woman? Have you ever asked
yourself: how come? How is it that
when they had to come up with ways
to describe this Happiness Potion,
men - because let’s face it, it was
most likely men, came up with words
best suited to describe women?
That’s because they recognised
that the scents, the flavours, the
way it felt on their tongues and how
it affected their brains reminded
them of us, the most temperamental,
fascinating, beautiful and maddening
of all bipeds. Perhaps I am reading
too much into this but here is my
take on these lexical similarities.
When talking about the kind of girl
they can go shooting pool with or
go fishing with, a guy will say: ‘She’s
brilliant!” The brilliance that the guy
is referring to is the clear, not cloudy
or hazy way this low-maintenance
type of woman thinks and acts.
Straightforward, she is a no brainer.
By the sam