Does swimming effect your sense of smell?
My wife and I recently had a lovely dinner with a person very knowledgable about wines. We are both wine lovers and appreciated his wonderful "wine lesson". However, when he got into the description of the wines in terms of berrys and oak and leather etc I had to stop him and say that I can sometimes detect a raisin taste or maybe even a blackberry taste but I have never been able to get any of those other subtle tastes that the wine experts use to describe wines.
So he asked me if I had sinus problems or something else that might effect my sense of smell. Well, the only thing I could think of was chlorine. Does anyone have any thoughts or information on wether 30 plus years of swimming and breathing that wonderful chlorine smell could have ruined or at least altered my sense of smell? If so I may go to exclusively drinking 2 Buck Chuck!!!
Glenn:)
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Originally posted by aquageek
Speaking of wine, do you have to extend the pinky when drinking a glass at a wine bar? Because I'm a swimmer and prefer the pinky entry, I wonder if I'd be an advanced wine drinker. Does sprint beer drinking translate to distance wine drinking?
Reminds me of my recent trip to Kalamazoo Michigan where I was asked to enter into a drinking contest against a Canadian college hockey player at Waldo's......
It was male against female, young against the old. The odds were against me......
Well, I don't mean to brag, but I must......I won! I believe I owe it all to the perfect extension of my pinky.
Originally posted by aquageek
Speaking of wine, do you have to extend the pinky when drinking a glass at a wine bar? Because I'm a swimmer and prefer the pinky entry, I wonder if I'd be an advanced wine drinker. Does sprint beer drinking translate to distance wine drinking?
Reminds me of my recent trip to Kalamazoo Michigan where I was asked to enter into a drinking contest against a Canadian college hockey player at Waldo's......
It was male against female, young against the old. The odds were against me......
Well, I don't mean to brag, but I must......I won! I believe I owe it all to the perfect extension of my pinky.
