last night, hungry and stymied by choices inside the trader joe’s booze aisle, i bought two bottles of wine: the first, because it claimed to have flavors of: “cigars, leather, chocolate, and earth.” i couldn’t imagine why i’d want my food to taste like cigars, but curiosity overcame me. as Ben put it, looking at the label, “one of these things is not like the other.”

this got me to thinking about the adjectives used to describe wine. which led me to this graphic, which I like very much, though it contains a long list of other things i’m not sure i want my wine to taste of, including: yeast, camphor, tar, smoked meat, asparagus, and grass.

the second bottle I purchased because it was called “Abrazo del Toro”. come on, who wouldn’t want a hug from a bull?

it’s a step up from buying wine because i like the label art, but only just.