“Ooh! Yes! Where did you buy that from?”
“Ah… I didn’t. Someone must have brought it.”
“One of our visitors, you mean?”
“I assume so. There are a few odd bottles in the cellar…
"Basement…"
"… which people have brought round, and I have just stuck down there. And there just happens to be this rosé.”
“Is it any good?”
“How do I know? I didn’t buy it! I mean, it’s not Domaine Templier or anything, that’s for sure. It’s…Whatever…it’s rosé.”
“You could look it up, couldn’t you?”
“I could, yes, but really, what’s the point? I mean, that fish is nearly cooked. And I don’t have another bottle of rosé. How was I to know there was a sunny weekend coming?”
“Well, I got the fish…”
“Yes, but you got that today, from the posh fishmongers, and if I’d suggested today that we got a bottle of rosé, you’d have given me that look.”
“What look?”
“The one which says ‘All you ever think about is wine, can’t you be excited about the fish?’”
“I thought the whole idea of you having a wine cellar was that you had different wines to suit different meals and so on?”
“To an extent, yes. But that extent sort of stops before rosé.”
“Why?”
“Because people don’t really keep rosé.”
“How long have you kept this one, then?”
“I don’t know. That’s not the point. The point is that if I’d bought it while we were out today, it would have been part of a plan, whereas I have come upstairs with this bottle of rosé, and it’s an unexpected treat. Ta da!”
“And it is going to be a treat, is it?”
“I don’t know! Look, it’s rosé. And this is probably the last time this year we’re going to drink any, and it’s really not worth keeping until next year. So I’m going to open it anyway. Oh.”
“What’s that face for?”
“It’s got a plastic cork. That’s not good.”
“Worse than a screwcap?”
“Probably. It means it’s got ideas above its station. Like a cartridge pen; it’s neither a proper traditional fountain pen, nor an efficient modern Biro. Whatever…it’s rosé”
“Nice colour…”
“That doesn’t mean anything, really. They’re making them paler and paler nowadays. Having said that, you know you’re in trouble when it’s the colour of bubblegum.”
“And what’s it like, then?”
“Could be colder. Rosé could always be colder. Oh. Oh… Still… it’s rosé.”
“Is it really horrible, then?”
“You try it.”
“It’s pretty horrible”
“Yes. Whatever… it’s rosé.”
PK
12/10 would buy T-shirt with "Whatever... it's rosé" printed on it
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DeleteThis is brilliant. If I don't see it at the Old Vic starring Kenneth Branagh & Olivia Colman in due course, the world has irrevocably gone to shit.
ReplyDeleteWhy, thank you – although that may have to wait for the completion of our full-length drama about a couple anticipating the delivery of their white wine – Waiting for Godello.
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