The Case Of The Mixed-Up Movies
I knew something like this would happen if my husband didn’t start putting DVDs away in the correct cases.
If I said it once, I said it a hundred times. “Steve, when you take a DVD out, don’t just stick it in whatever empty case happens to be handy. And never put more than one DVD in a case.” Who does that? I mean, if you follow those rules, there shouldn’t even be any other emtpy DVD cases lying around, right?
So I wasn’t surprised when he managed to lose our Everyday Genius Institute Wine Genius DVD just days after we got it. I knew it had to be around here somewhere. But it wasn’t hiding behind the jackets of the other favorite DVDs casually stuffed into the Wine Genius case: The 400 Greatest World Cup Fake Injuries or the 1996 naval romp Down Periscope starring Kelsey Grammer. Steve and I had planned to cuddle up together and learn the secrets of how to think like a wine expert from Master Sommelier Tim Gaiser. Yeah, good luck with no DVD, right?
If only we’d thought to check inside the case for our daughter’s Baby Einstein DVD. It only took one evening at home with Gramma Grammy for little Koryn to amass a wine education far beyond the typical three-year-old’s. She cooed herself to sleep that night describing flavors and aromas of wine. The next morning at breakfast, she told us her juice box was “shot through with blackcurrant and earth notes with a lingering, mineral-laden finish.” That day at preschool, she asked for an Australian Sauvignon Blanc to go with her chicken tenders. Steve’s laziness and Tim Gaiser’s expertise had created a baby oenophile monster – and she’s never even tasted the stuff.
Now the question was, what happened to Baby Einstein? Steve found it when he sat down for his next weekly viewing of Down Periscope. I know it sounds weird that he got through the whole thing without realizing what he was watching, but if you’ve ever watched Down Periscope, you’ll understand. At one point, he told me “I think this movie gets better every time I see it.”
So now I have to explain to Koryn’s preschool teachers why she knows so much about what makes a good Pinot Noir. I still haven’t even had a chance to learn what Tim Gaiser has to teach me. But the worst part is that now, when I feel like drinking a glass of good wine, all Steve wants to do is put on some Brahms and stare at the goldfish.
Features:
- Easily identify and describe flavors and aromas
- Evaluate the age, quality and complexity of any wine
- Rapidly improve your own smelling and tasting ability
- Be able to select the right wine for the right food and right mood
- Impress your friends and colleagues
- Savor each glass of wine like never before
Things you will learn:
- 4 things to Look for in the wine
- 4 things to Smell in the wine
- The 5 components to Taste in the wine
- Simply genius strategies to detect aromas and flavors
- A genius way to remember wines
- 3 key strategies to help you practice and get better much faster
In the box:
- Wine Genius DVD
- Illustrated instruction guide
