Last week, I had a delegation from Naked Wines customers visit the vineyard. The “angels”, as they’re called on the website, tasted several wines from the region the day before. And they had expressed some curiosity about the term garrigue that comes up all the time when tasting wines from this area. Garrigue refers to the underbrush in the region, but it can include a lot of different plants.

I wrote a post about some of the plants around the vineyard and I took cuttings which the angels got to smell. Here is a video of the experience taken by one of the visitors.

I was wondering if there’s a smelling contest that rates how well people can recognize and match smells to each other.  And I did some research and most of the competitions I found are about being smelly.

• Smelliest sneakers contest
• Smelliest cheese contest
• Smelliest urine contest ?! eww!!

So ya, no more of those.  Let’s make a smellER contest.

If you are the kind of nerd who is already thinking of scientifically accurate ways of judging a person’s olfactory capabilities without being overly reliant on language, you should be emailing me.  I will want help organizing this.

If you are the kind of nerd who is already pondering about the sociological implications of the contest, you too should email me.

If you are a member of a group that gets together and smells things, let me know that you exist.  As a matter of fact, this might be a smarter place to start.  Let’s just make a super smellers club.

Super Smellers
When we smell pears, it’s like we smell a thousand pears.

So without further ado, I am founding the first chapter of the Languedoc Roussillon Super Smellers.  If you would like to start a chapter of the Super Smellers in YOUR community, email Ryan O’Connell today.

If you would like to join a chapter of the Super Smellers, that will also be done by email until I get a decent site up and running.  And don’t tell me that this is a bad idea because I already bought the domain name. supersmellers.com COMING SOON.