This confused us for a while. We were in the 5thView bar, up on the top floor of Waterstone’s bookshop in Piccadilly, and I was enjoying a two-for-one martini, in their happy hour special. (Why oh why don’t more bookshops sell martinis? And why don’t more martini bars sell books?) This is what one of Waterstone’s two-for-one martinis looks like (though you probably knew that):
But our eye was caught by the wine menu, specifically by this line; ‘delicious, well balanced and flavourful, with nots of red fruit and warm spice.’
Obviously ‘nots’ was a typo but it took a while to work out what it actually meant. My first thought was that it might mean ‘lots of red fruit’, but then I thought ‘knots of red fruit’ might be a possibility. And in the end my drinking companion worked out that it was probably meant to be ‘notes of red fruit.’ She was right, I’m sure, and yet somehow I was left feeling disappointed.
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