{"id":26,"date":"2015-01-15T21:44:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T21:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2015-12-23T21:20:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T21:20:08","slug":"etiquette-1-perfume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Etiquette # 1 \u2013 PERFUME"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lucie is writing this blog post. \u00a0Steve can smell all the aromas in a glass of wine but can\u2019t smell perfume!<\/em><\/p>\n

We are both very strong on the following advice: please everyone, guys and gals, do not travel with your bottle of perfume, cologne or after-shave when you go wine tasting.\u00a0 \u00a0Leave it at home when you go to Wine Country. \u00a0Perfume detracts from your tasting experience as well as that of those around you.<\/p>\n

The idea of going wine tasting is to taste and smell the wines.\u00a0 Perfume blocks all the wonderful aromas of what has been poured in your glass.\u00a0 And since most of what we humans taste comes from our sense of smell, you don\u2019t get the true flavor of the wine either.<\/p>\n

Recently, we were at Joseph Phelps Vineyards in St. Helena.\u00a0 While they are undergoing renovations at the winery, they were offering tastings under a marquee, outside besides the vineyard, below the winery.\u00a0 Phelps is one of our favorite wineries in Napa Valley\u00a0\u00a0 When we reserved for our wine tasting, we were not told that the tasting room and patio where we had been many times before was being renovated. It was a surprise but not a good one.<\/p>\n

Worst of all, there was a woman standing beside us at the bar wearing such a powdery perfume, I had to move away from her.\u00a0 Unfortunately the scent of her perfume was all around, even if we were outside; imagine what it would have been like indoors.\u00a0 \u00a0Some smaller wineries have very small tasting rooms; her perfume would have been totally overwhelming.<\/p>\n

Smelling that perfume made our tasting experience so unpleasant that it completely ruined Lucie\u2019s visit, unable to get the bouquet and the taste of the wines being served\u2026 because of that perfume!<\/p>\n

We insist that it is not only women we\u2019re talking about, but men also.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Leave the Old Spice at home, guys. \u00a0When you taste wine, what you smell is as important as what you have in your mouth, so let\u2019s all enjoy it to the maximum.<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lucie is writing this blog post. \u00a0Steve can smell all the aromas in a glass of wine but can\u2019t smell perfume! We are both very strong on the following advice: please everyone, guys and gals, do not travel with your bottle of perfume, cologne or after-shave when you go wine tasting.\u00a0 \u00a0Leave it at home … Continue reading Etiquette # 1 \u2013 PERFUME<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}