COVID-19 — A Sommelier’s Journey Losing Taste and Smell

Suriya Bala
8 min readJun 1, 2021
Covid 19- Scent and Taste Loss

Covid savaged me last year. It started by rendering my food tour business defunct, stripping me of a passion project that had started to thrive. Then, like many others living alone in London, it jailed me into a depressive, solitary lockdown. When it felt as if life finally had me on my knees — I caught Covid. And lost my sense of taste and smell.

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Suriya Bala

Suriya is most often obsessing on food, wine, and neuroplasticity. She’s an ardent crusader for wine literacy- without the bastard airs and graces.