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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Years ago, I could smell when an intoxicated coach walked by the facility air intake vents maybe 50m away. When I am driving my car, windows rolled up, I can smell/get a headache if the occupants of the car in front of me are smoking (tobacco or other).
Yet I did not have a particularly sensitive palate - I could tell if a wine tasted like chewing a pencil (cabernet) or was fruity (sangria). Maybe if I had savored my beverages rather than slamming them I would be more discerning.
Are there any bacon-flavored wines? I would think that would be popular in my circle of friends.
Years ago, I could smell when an intoxicated coach walked by the facility air intake vents maybe 50m away. When I am driving my car, windows rolled up, I can smell/get a headache if the occupants of the car in front of me are smoking (tobacco or other).
Yet I did not have a particularly sensitive palate - I could tell if a wine tasted like chewing a pencil (cabernet) or was fruity (sangria). Maybe if I had savored my beverages rather than slamming them I would be more discerning.
Are there any bacon-flavored wines? I would think that would be popular in my circle of friends.
