The Rack

There is a shelf in my flat cluttered with bottles.

They are the shells of wine and beer par excellence. Memories of drinks with fun, or tricky, or intricate, or bold, even sometimes strange but always pleasing tastes. Sometimes they went well with dinner, sometimes not. It's a hard thing to pair food you've never made with a drink you've never tried.

It's always new. We tend not to repeat much in the way of tasting beer and wine, or even restaurants. There is so much out there to taste.