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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Based on my experience, I would say not.
In my college swimming days, I recorded personal highs in terms of yardage swum and time spent in the water.
I was also one of the few folks in my group that could go to a kegger, taste a cup of mystery beer, and correctly ID the brand of beer. (In the early 80s, when domestic beer was even more dumbed-down and bland than it is today.) Of course, it also might have been that I consumed less beer in general, and was more likely to still have use of my taste buds when I sampled the suds.
Please note your inability to detect aromas of extinct tropical vegitation, the show room of a furniture store, or that oh so special "new car smell" in a bottle of wine (made from grapes grown in Saint Genevieve, MO) may have more to do with your so-called "uneducated palate" such that you don't note those intricacies. Some call this a deficiency; others call it evidence of having a life. Does anyone remember the Sinbad movie "Houseguest"? The scene with the oh-so-educated wine expert who rattled off his list of things he wants in a wine, then goes through a full 60 second ritual of sampling it, up to an including the part where he gargles with it. Sinbad's take was that he sounded like he was with a woman, and he guessed that some people drank wine, while others dated.
Matt
Based on my experience, I would say not.
In my college swimming days, I recorded personal highs in terms of yardage swum and time spent in the water.
I was also one of the few folks in my group that could go to a kegger, taste a cup of mystery beer, and correctly ID the brand of beer. (In the early 80s, when domestic beer was even more dumbed-down and bland than it is today.) Of course, it also might have been that I consumed less beer in general, and was more likely to still have use of my taste buds when I sampled the suds.
Please note your inability to detect aromas of extinct tropical vegitation, the show room of a furniture store, or that oh so special "new car smell" in a bottle of wine (made from grapes grown in Saint Genevieve, MO) may have more to do with your so-called "uneducated palate" such that you don't note those intricacies. Some call this a deficiency; others call it evidence of having a life. Does anyone remember the Sinbad movie "Houseguest"? The scene with the oh-so-educated wine expert who rattled off his list of things he wants in a wine, then goes through a full 60 second ritual of sampling it, up to an including the part where he gargles with it. Sinbad's take was that he sounded like he was with a woman, and he guessed that some people drank wine, while others dated.
Matt
