Horological Meandering

ThomasM
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Interesting synchronicity...

Hi, Bill,

I just finished composing a piece about some real time wine experience...(ThePuristS.com WFED forum)

The long and short of it is, man, I almost threw it out because in 2 hours, it was completely uninteresting and downright boring.

I wonder how this translates to watches? Can we learn to (or better yet, develop naturally and intuitively, without "thinking it through") appreciate subtleties that we miss in pictures, or over one day or even a week or month, over time?

and, um...you know I couldn't resist the temptation of this line of yours, didn't you?

"Like any good collector, I no longer own any of these watches, but I treasure the time I had with them."

Any true collector, as a "collector" (almost by definition) has great difficulty letting anything go.

Cheers,

TM

"Tiefenbrunner Pinot Bianco 2008 - upon opening, and throughout a 2 hour dinner - completely bland, insipid, uninspiring. Pleasant enough, but so boringly uninteresting that I was tempted to throw out the other bottle.

"Life is too short to drink mediocre wine."

I couldn't bring myself to drink a second glass, yet I couldn't bring myself to throw away 4/5 of a bottle.

Well, that was 3 weeks ago.

I've been to London and Switzerland in between.

I've had a few bottles of red (and a white) along with some nice charcuterie platters in the meantime.

So, after three weeks, stoppered and in the refrigerator - can it possibly have gotten any better? Is it dead to the point of past redemption?

Surprise, surprise - it has opened up; it actually is showing more than one note, and its previous watery thinness, though still very light bodied, is now slightly more interesting.

And the finish - previously, what finish? you swallowed and it was done - is exhibiting notes of minerals and citrus.

Paired with homemade pasta shells and a touch of jar meat sauce?

Wow, a very surprising, pleasant ...surprise!

I'm actually looking forward to finishing the bottle (back into the frig it went, stoppered...) and seeing how it develops further.

So I have to wonder - how many bottles do we finish off, or even dismiss and throw away, before it has a chance to wake up and really present itself properly?

'45 Cheval; '59 Mouton; '82 Lafite; '86 Latour; '09 plonk.

hmmmmm..."