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Judging by previous coronaviruses, full taste and smell post-Covid could take up to 18 months to return, and the process can be very worrying for those who rely on having finely tuned noses and taste buds. ETX Studio pic
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PARIS, March 13 No-one likes to lose their sense of smell or taste a common symptom of Covid-19 but for the sommeliers and other wine professionals of France, it is particularly traumatic.
“It’s very hard to admit that we’ve lost these senses,” said Sophie Pallas, director of the Union of French Oenologues. “I was very affected as an individual because wine is the central passion in my life.”
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Last March, Philippe Faure-Brac, one of France s best-known sommeliers, shuttered his Paris restaurant, Bistrot du Sommelier, as France entered its first national COVID-19 lockdown. Two weeks later, Faure-Brac, who had just turned 60, was diagnosed with COVID. Following a week of fever, gastric problems and fatigue, a new chapter of the illness opened. When I started eating again, he recalled, I realized I had a problem.
Like most sufferers of relatively mild cases of COVID, Faure-Brac lost his sense of smell, and consequently his ability to perceive flavors. To celebrate his recovery, he had opened a bottle of red Châteauneuf-du-Pape.