Still in port in Valdivia
Clark April 30th, 2007
Life is cruel.
On Saturday night I went to a dinner party on some Quebequois friends’ boat, celebrating Andres’s sixty-ninth birthday. Andres is a Swiss friend from yet another boat. Andres spent his career as one of the top professional wine tasters in Europe, until he had a head injury that completely destroyed his sense of smell. Now he says the cheapest Chilean boxed wine tastes the same as the best French vintage. He can only catorize liquids into three major flavors: sweet, tart, and salty.
As the night wore on and Andres got more maudlin, he started telling us about all the things that have lost their flavor. Many things, he says, really have no flavor to the tongue at all. It is the smell that creates the illusion of flavor. He said with fresh basil he might as well be eating grass.
This is a photo of the Fuegian sky in the Beagle Channel.
Hey Clarky – Nice site!! Sorry for the late reply to your last mail. I promptly deleted the email and so lost your sailmail address.. Please resend. Will write more soon..
Ciao mucker,
Josh