A few tableaux to end the week: Bullets ahoy!
- I went to lunch with work friends this week. An ex-employee from another office came to meet us, and she showed us a picture of her new boyfriend. One of my friend’s who is not known for her tact blurted out, “He’s cute!” in such a way that left no doubt that the subtext was, “How in Jesus’s Green Earth did you land him?!” The ex-employee smooshed up her face and put away her picture.
- Last night a large group of friends went to a wine-tasting. The spiky-haired hostess/teacher was a little bit country. She kept saying a wine was in the “Chianti style.” Someone asked her if Chianti was the type of grape or a region. She said it was a region. I think she’s wrong on both counts. Someone please confirm for me that she was a snake-oil salesman-woman. Her grasp of a few concepts seemed tenuous, and I couldn’t take her seriously with her orange hair.
- Jen-An once again proved that she loves making me uncomfortable by forcing me to face her while she planted a kiss on my cheek when we met. She accused me of turning away from her hugs. At the end of the night I hugged her too tight, and rubbed my scruffly cheek too hard against her cheek. She said I made snuffling noises also. Jerry said that more-than-likely I gave her a bruise from my cheek-rape. She said she enjoyed it.
saltine | 16-Apr-07 at 5:17 pm | Permalink
Since no one has replied to your question of whether Chianti is a wine or a region, I will. The orange-haired waitress replied to the question that it is a region and she is right, Alex. The reason she presented the wine as “Chianti style” is that the wine had the character of a wine from the Chianti region, but was not in fact from the Chianti region. Therefore, she could not say, “It’s Chianti.” It’s like Burgundy or Champagne; if it’s in the style but not of the region, it has to be renamed. In Australia and the US we call wine with the character of champagne “sparkling wine” because the appellation “champagne” is off-limits. Appellation wines are wines from a region which produces wines that are exactly alike because the growing conditions over the region are exactly alike, hence, Chianti is Chianti because of the region, not the producer.
I’m a wine snob, so shoot me.