Elf Sternberg

Last week as I was sitting down to dinner with a glass, I picked it in the same way I usually pick up a red, and Kouryou-chan said, "Daddy! That's a white wine! You're supposed to hold it by the stem!"

That is terribly, terribly adorable, you know.

Heh. I'm 33 and I agree with her on the taste and smell of wine. I think it's pretty, sometimes, but then I actually try some and it's all I can do not to gag. I'm horribly unsophisticated, I guess, since the only 'wine' I halfway enjoy is one particular brand of plum wine served at my favorite Japanese restaurant. Icewine sounds like it might be drinkable, too, but most of it... even the terms used to describe it sound revolting.

When my son was nine he seemed somewhat interested when we were having after-dinner drinks with friends, asking what we had, so I told him. Knowing that if he decided to sneak a taste of his own, my amerreto (kept in the freezer cause I like it that way) would be the easiest for him to find and is sweet enough that he might actually _like_ it, I had Shay give him a sip of his scotch instead. Heh. That was the funniest face I'd seen on him since he grabbed a lemon wedge off my glass and bit into it when he was a toddler. Since, if there's alcohol in the house, he just gives us this disbelieving, disgusted look as if he can't believe we're crazy enough to drink _that_. Just the effect I was after. :) Only tequilla could have accomplished it better, I believe.

Still... tiny little girl lecturing you on how to hold you wine... that's just so adorable. Guess she told you! You have darling daughters, Elf.