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:)
Thanks all for your responses. In no way does the fact that I have trouble discerning the subtle tastes in wine inhibit my enjoyment. In fact I suppose it might even be a plus since I can enjoy a bottle of 2 Buck Chuck as well as that $40 bottle we had last night - which was good, but not $38 better than the Trader Joe's model.
One thing that does not change however, was that my workout this morning was not quite as good as usual and that may have something to do with the 3 bottles the four of us enjoyed last night!!!
Glenn;)
Thanks all for your responses. In no way does the fact that I have trouble discerning the subtle tastes in wine inhibit my enjoyment. In fact I suppose it might even be a plus since I can enjoy a bottle of 2 Buck Chuck as well as that $40 bottle we had last night - which was good, but not $38 better than the Trader Joe's model.
One thing that does not change however, was that my workout this morning was not quite as good as usual and that may have something to do with the 3 bottles the four of us enjoyed last night!!!
Glenn;)
