Four Blue Glasses and a Lorry at Four

SYNETAIRISTIKO ELAIOTRIVEIO · TASTING ROOM, BACK OF THE PRESS
13:20 · lorry at 16:00

the four samples — drag a glass

warming cradle

enamel, from the housewares floor at Castellane's. A wedding present nobody wanted.

both hands — two glasses, never one

Fill both and you get a comparison. Never an opinion.

apple

Drag a slice out onto the table and eat it.

delivery dockets — drag one under each glass

The second press, photographed by Sotiris, who is also the one who took the docket rack off its nail.

What I know before I smell anything

S. VLAHAKI — PENCIL, ON THE WALL, SINCE THURSDAY
  1. The Kambos lot was picked green and pressed the same day. Green fruit gives you the pepper. It is the most pungent of the four — in the throat, not on the tongue. Nothing green is fusty.
  2. The Vromovrysi lot hung until it fell off. Late fruit is mild: it is the least bitter of the four. That is the only thing mildness proves.
  3. Ano Rema went through cold, no hot water on the paste, so it keeps its volatiles. Warmed, it is the fruitiest of the four on the nose.
  4. Kambos is bitterer than the Pigadia blend. Half of Pigadia is Yerakaris' fruit and Yerakaris' fruit has never been bitter in its life.
  5. Fruit stood in the yard at Vromovrysi and at Pigadia. One of those two is fusty. One. Not both.
  6. One tank sat half empty all week and has gone rancid — putty, old walnuts. Not Kambos; Kambos went straight into a full tank.

Bitter = tongue. Pungent = throat, it makes you cough. Two compounds, two sensations. Mix them up and everything after is wrong.

Stavroula, across the table

ways left on my scrap of paper: 24
four dockets, four glasses