“Can I give you a kiss?”, he asks, by way of greeting. It is a meeting of wine people, from Incavi, and most people welcome each other with handshakes and a lot of frankness and warmth. “You have to do it,” I say jokingly. “It’s just that I like to ask first,” he says, upon hearing me. And he adds: “At home we are very kissy, but you never know…” I pause for a moment on the adjective. To be kissy. To be someone who likes to give kisses. In the Spanish language it would be to be besucón, and in Basque, musukatzaile. In Finnish, suutelija. I wonder, then, if all languages have this meaning. The word that explains that someone is given to giving kisses.