Called Out!

Today in the Tasting Room, a customer asked me to define the wine term "terroir". I explained how the land in which the grapes are grown relates to their qualities. Rocky terroir or beach front terroir, for example. She still looked confused, so I shared the origins of the word, showing how it is related to "terra" meaning earth. Except that what I said was "Terran".

Her partner, a rugby enthusiast looking type, said "Terran? You mean like in...?!?" I said "Yes".

For the less informed, we were alluding to Starcraft, one of the best selling computer games of all time, which pits two races of aliens, the Zerg and the Protoss, against nomadic humans called Terrans in a futurist space war.

I said "Yes" and he and I started laughing really hard. Neither of us had to say anything else. We had both called each other out. The woman was like "what?" and he and I laughed some more.