Wine and Romance

[smokingboot]

Promised myself I would note all the good wines we tried and want to try again; Last night it was a luscious red Il Primo, Selezionato di Alberto Romeo Sangiovese Shiraz 2007. The Times describes it as a new world wine with an Italian heart, and talks about plum and cherry notes with a hint of tobacco.

Don't know about that, cherry notes in anything except fresh cherries make me shudder. I couldn't detect it...all I detected was a red wine that really didn't need food to justify it, let alone the pizza and chicken wings we devoured around its loveliness; it didn't mind such riff-raff company and carried itself like a rose among thorns.

Speaking of which, I may well need a rose. Unlike many of my friends, I am not going to a castle, because I have a day show on Sunday, so I guess the point is to make the best of it. I am trying to write a romance, and I feel about as romantic as a kitchen duster. Earlier in the week I bought some beautiful flowers, striped and multi-coloured tulips plus elegant amyryllises? amaryllii? Lovely though they are, they aren't triggering my romance buttons. I guess now would be the moment for roses, but I detest those thorn-free, scent-free, personality free nigh on rose-free roses to be found in every supermarket and most florists. I want a real rose!

Comments

[caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com]

I think the mark of a really good wine is that it can stand up to a fish finger sandwich.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Ooooooooh I haven't had a fish finger sandwich in years!

[caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com]

They are every bit as good as you remember them being.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

I always felt uncomfortable about loving them, cos I am a brown sauce fan, and the two tribes never mix. For fishfingers, tomato ketchup is the only accompaniment. There, what a betrayer I am!

[caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com]

Food colouring is obviously your friend ;o)

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Nuffinrongwivbraaaaaaansorce innit?

[blackcurrants.livejournal.com]

"For fishfingers, tomato ketchup is the only accompaniment."

Or, if you're in the mood, Thai-ish sweet chili dipping sauce. Srsly.

[blackcurrants.livejournal.com]

Your (rightful!) dismissal of poor, flabby, scentless roses reminded me of the extraordinary roses in Robin Mckinley's "Rose Daughter". Heh. Beauty and the Beast is alllll about the roses.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

My story needs a rose garden in Paris...I am trying to evoke it in my mind, perhaps some music, 'Pavanne for a dead Princess,' may help. True romance is difficult for me to write.

Never read 'Rose Daughter,' will look out for it. Strange how flowers have moods. I'm never quite convinced that a rose is a rose is a rose. I often suspect that Beauty and the Beast would have ended quite differently if the rose had been white.

[blackcurrants.livejournal.com]

Heck, Beauty and the Beast would have ended a lot differently if the rose had been a daisy...
yes, roses are very complicated indeed. And fab. It was fun playing a character who deliberately associated herself with them.

If you can't get a satisfactory flower, might I suggest skipping that part and just smelling OF roses? Jo Malone's Red Roses cologne, perhaps? Not too sticky, but inTENSEly roses-y.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

If the beast's rose had been a daisy, he'd have stayed a beast and they'd all have just got over it!

Finding a good rose scent is difficult. I have Stella which is lovely but pointless; it lasts about 10 minutes on my skin. The studio just gave me a breakfast show tomorrow, so I have no choice but to go to Selfridges afterwards and dowse myself in JM Red Rose or my muse will never appear and the story won't get written!

You are clearly an agent of fate...

[ravenrigan.livejournal.com]

Send me your snail mail addy and I'll pop a couple of GC BPAL roses in with your Candy Butcher. Rose on me just goes "Hai there I'm Rose, I'm here with, Oh well whatever, OMG, did I mention that I'm ROSE!!!!!!" so their subtleties are entirely wasted on me.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

You darling, thank you! I am sending you my address via private message xxx