The occasional wine song series continues; this time its Elbow. Partly because I think Guy Garvey would be excellent party company, wine and drinking are all common themes in his songs, a guy who is thinking and sinking the wine. So what to drink while listening to Forget Myself?
"Do you move through the room with a glass in your hand
Thinking too hard about the way you stand
Are you watching them pair off and drinking them long
Are you falling in love every second song"
We have all experienced the joyful meeting of meek and menace, the man at the velvet rope. Shaven of head, dressed or squeezed usually like a black pudding into a shinier than thou dark suit, earpiece in the cauliflower appendage. Someone to help the evening pass without pain, someone to keep the riff-raff out. A wine that has that mix of the rough with the smooth for me is Ed Meades Mendocino Zinfadel, it is North Coast so not as posh as its peers. Tannins are there like bruises on a bouncer, dark it is and it packs a punch but again not like a real heavyweight, the kind of guy on the velvet rope is never the best around.
Once you get to know Ed, as I have now gotten to call him as I use false bonhomie to try and get in ahead of the line, you appreciate the subtle strength as by now you know there is no real menace. You can forget yourself, so go ahead start kicking up mischief and feeding the fire....
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