Music

品酒

“品酒” is one of my favorite conceptual approaches because, on the surface, it can be heard almost completely as a genuine wine-tasting song. I use the language of color, legs, aroma, aeration, acidity, tannin, body, maturity and finish as though I were simply sitting at a table and tasting a glass slowly. Underneath that structure, however, the song is describing the kind of love a mature man hopes to find. I did not want to call love “sweet” or write an ideal partner in obvious romantic language. Instead, I used the structure of a mature wine to describe a mature relationship. It does not have to be immediately pleasing on the first sip. It should have layers, structure, time and evolution. There may be acidity and astringency, but the final impression should move toward balance, and greater depth should appear the longer you stay with it. That double reading is what makes the song special to me. On the surface it remains a legitimate tasting piece. Once the tasting notes are translated back into human relationships, it becomes an adult view of love: sweetness is not the goal; the real question is whether the relationship still has something worth discovering after time has done its work.