The ties are windows to the soul

I bought this tie at a wine tasting. The wine merchants planned it well: the tasters were sent round rooms in a gallery on Pall Mall, tasting as we went, and then, at the end, when our resistance was low, they sold us stuff. At this tasting I bought a case of something fizzy with a bouquet of lemons, and this emphatically Dionysiac tie. I could have bought a bow too.

With this tie, I am probably telling the world, 'yes, I am a hopeless dipso. In the popular euphemistic phrase, I "like a drink". Hence I wear a tie emblazoned with grapes'. No wonder people look askance.