My three year old wants me to read him a book. I agree, so he grabs the wine tasting book I bought for my wife off the coffee table. O.K.? I open up to a random page and start reading about TCA. my wife walks in and asks what we're reading. My son replies, about tri-chloral- APPLESAUCE.
I also thing he is going to get beat up sooner or later if he doesn't stop swirling his grape juice at school.
My 11 year old said that when he grows up he wants to run my winery "if I don't make it bankrupt first". I've also got a buddy of his wanting to be a winemaker. That said, neither one of them like the taste (but love the smell) of wine.
Make Cab, not War.
Posts: 1368 | Location: Napa Valley and East Bay | Registered: Oct 23, 2001
At the dinner table, my 6 year old drinks her juice out of a plastic "picnic" wine glass. and yes, she swirls it. Needless to say, we keep a plastic tablecloth on our kitchen table, and no tablecloth on our glass dining room table.
She always asks what "color" wine we are drinking. If we have white, she drinks apple juice, white grape juice or seltzer water. If we have red, she drinks cran-apple juice or occasionally, Coke.
She often asks to "smell" our wine. Her descriptors are often unusual, but rarely off the mark. She once pegged a young Cabernet as "Magic Marker". I never would have thought of that, but she was right on.
Posts: 1601 | Location: CONNECTICUT | Registered: Oct 19, 2001
My 1-1/2 year old always does a "dat pleze" when I have a glass. I dip my fingertip in and give her a drop whcih invariably leads to several more "dat pleze"s before she finally is convinced its mine, not hers.
6 months ago my 4yo daughter said she wants to be a brewer when she grows up. You go girl. But now she just wants to be a fairy. Fairies don't do anything practical like making beer. I'm so disappointed.
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