The Tomato Bush vs The Sauvignon Blanc

In our back garden, I have a vegetable patch. It is an experimental vegetable patch and is helping me to work out, what I will plant, when one day I have a proper vegetable patch. For example, I will not be growing leeks again. 7 months of patient waiting and in order to make a simple Leek and Stilton Quiche, I had to supplement my ‘harvest’ with two packets of leeks from Woolies. Admittedly the recipe was sourced from “The Leek Growers Association” (yes, there is one…), so they may well have over estimated the quantity required. On the other hand I plan to become an avid cherry tomato gardener – one little seed 2 weeks ago and this is what I have to show for it!

The other day I was admiring my cherry tomato bush, and as I stood there looking at the little green tomatoes, I recognized a familiar smell – that of a grassy Sauvignon Blanc. This was a bit unusual as I always associated wines with the smell of something else, rather than the other way round. For example, “this Chardonnay smells like buttered toast” and not “this buttered toast smells like Chardonnay”. This is all probably because I had assigned that particular smell to buttered toast, long before I had the delight of sipping upon a gently wooded Chardonnay. Similarly, I had assigned the above-mentioned fragrance to a Sauvignon Blanc, long before I had ever encountered a tomato bush.

So forever more, a tomato bush will always smell like a Sauvignon Blanc to me … simply because in my experience the Sauvignon Blanc came before the tomato bush.