Feeling (Green and) Blue

Green and Blue's Kate thal

You don't expect to end up on the dance floor with the proprietor at the end of a wine tasting, but that's what happened at last Sunday's wine and music matching event at Green and Blue. The concept seemed simple enough - six wines to be tasted, each one with a specific piece of music matched to it by a guest DJ or musician. But, the enjoyment of both music and wine can be a very personal, subjective matter - I wasn't sure whether someone else's matches would resonate for me, or not.

Green and Blue's owner and driving force, Kate Thal, provided typically passionate and eloquent introductions to the wines. Balearic DJ Cedric Woo was perhaps a less comfortable orator but clearly passionate about his choices. What I missed was insight into why Cedric had selected particular tracks to go with particular wines - some of the matches felt immediately evocative and natural (Lucio Battisti with a Provencal Rose), others were less clear. It seemed like a missed opportu…