The Wine Sutra

Grape Expectations Wine Imports

“BACCHUS, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.”

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“The flowering sections of Quercus and Mesobalanus should be used judiciously to prevent a taster’s palate from Phytophthora ramorum (”Sudden Oak Death”), a metaphysical disease spread by what Vaynerchuk refers to as the ‘Oak Monster.’ Like Philippe Petit, when we see three oranges, we juggle; at the sight of two towers we walk; and when discussing ethanol as an organic compound with a hydroxyl group bound to a carbon atom of an alkyl or substituted alkyl group, we invent funambulist challenges while at the dentist’s office. As noted by Aquinas, when speaking of ’settling down’ the ‘impure dregs of fluids’ fall to the bottom, just as the young [juvenes] cannot learn by grasping what they are told by others. And in our free time, while listening to Plath’s echoes of the ‘beeswing’ [as Deren films tenant mice, hooves and the far sea], Heidelberg Distributing seeks new portfolios to introduce into the Kentucky marketplace as we are introducing Grape Expectations Wine Imports into Kentucky for the very first time.”

Domaine — Appellation — Producer

SPAIN

SHERRY

“From Gibraltar it is only a few hours’ sail to Cadiz, which rises in white-robed beauty out of the turquoise sea, while from Cadiz it is scarcely a few hours’ sail to Jerez, the very heart of the sherry district, where from one year’s end to another it is the habit to talk, think and dream of little else besides wine, known in the mystical phraseology of the bodega as fino, palma, palo, cortado, raya, redondo, abocado, or basto.”

“Aboard the Victoria, it was apparent Magellan had significantly spent more on wines from Sherry and Duero than he did arms.”

Below: A Diagram Concerning How Babies Are Made

Bodegas Rey Fernando de Castilla – (Jerez) Sherry — Jan Petterson

RIOJA

“To Tranquility, Constancy and Riches”

La Emperatriz – Rioja — Chema Pangua

CATALUNYA / CAVA

“Canta con voz su nombre pregonera, ni cura si encarama la lengua lisonjera lo que condena la verdad sincera.”

(Sant Sadurni d’Anoi Map: Pending Status)

Cavas Castillo de Perelada – Catalunya – Joseph Lluis Perez, Simo Serra, Delfi Sanahuja

FRANCE

ALSACE

“Hope gave her back the lost Alsace.”

Paul Zinck – Alsace — Paul Zinck

CHAMPAGNE

“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.”

J.M. Gobillard & Fils – Champagne — Thierry Gobillard

RHONE

“Certainly they will not ask the correct tone of the mountains, but they will say: In the Name of God, the mountains were blue, were they?”

Domaine du Bois des Meges — Gigondas / CDRV — Guigue Ghislain

LANGUEDOC

“If heaven loved not the wine, / A Wine Star would not be in heaven; /’ If earth loved not the wine, / The Wine Spring would not be on earth. / Since heaven and earth love the wine, / Need a tippling mortal be ashamed? / The transparent wine, I hear, / Has the soothing virtue of a sage / While the turgid is rich, they say / As the fertile mind of the wise. / Both the sage and the wise were drinkers, / Why seek for peers among gods and goblins? / Three cups open the grand door to bliss; / Take a jugful, the universe is yours. / Such is the rapture of the wine, / That the sober shall never inherit.”