Crushed Violets???

Here I am, returning after another long spell away from this blog. This time the delay was caused by dealing with a new job - in my pursuit of work in wine, I now have a job as a bartender at a very nice restaurant with an excellent cellar and wine education program for its employees. Hooray!

Let's see, what else has happened... On one of my walks recently I picked some violets and crushed them and smelled them (all the while feeling guilt for destroying them!) Having smelled them, I can't say that I understand the smell descriptor of "crushed violets" that I read so often about wine. Which is funny, because so many other smell and flavor descriptors that as a neophyte I would never have expected in wine have been spot-on, like "mint" or "cola" or "bacon."