Music

品嚐愛

“品嚐愛” is paired with “品酒,” but the direction of the metaphor is reversed. In “品酒,” I use a bottle of wine to describe the kind of love a mature man hopes to find. In “品嚐愛,” the perspective becomes female, and a love story is used to describe a wine. In other words, this time the wine is not being compared to love; the experience of love becomes the tasting note through which the wine is understood. The sweetness at the beginning of a relationship, the acidity that later appears, the astringency, intensity, balance and final aftertaste can all become characteristics of the bottle. I like placing the two songs beside each other because the same subject changes completely when the direction of observation is reversed. The woman is not defining an ideal partner. She is tasting the memory of a relationship that has already happened. Some flavors were overwhelming at the time, while others only become understandable later. What remains is not necessarily the sweetest moment but the finish created by the entire experience. That is why the song can be heard in both directions: as a relationship described like wine, and as a wine given a story through the language of love.