New Statesman, 15 March 2004
From new kitchen to world takeover - wine makes anything seem possible
Ancient philosophy, Christian religion and western art all see wine as a unique adjunct to the human condition: a channel of communication between god and man, between the rational soul and the animal, between the animal and vegetable kingdoms. Through wine, the distilled essence of the soil seems to flow into the veins, awakening the body to its life. And having swamped the body, wine invades the soul. Your thoughts race; you plan the triumphant career, the immortal work of art, the world takeover, or the new kitchen. And tomorrow morning all will be forgotten. Hence, wine symbolises those radical changes, those soarings and plummetings from one existential plane to another, that make life so dangerous, so meaningful and so sad.
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June 27, 2007
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Beautiful, and indeed! Drinking itself is even the basic existential gesture. We breath without thinking, so no deliberate human act is a greater affirmation of our incarnated existence. Drinking wine--or the art of drinking it--is an even wider affirmation. ...of course the best choice is Chinon white.
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