“There are moves afoot in our culture to both celebrate the childless life and point to the foulness of wine for its categorization as alcohol. I don’t subscribe to either.”
I don’t understand the movement to celebrate the childless life. I consider my kids to be a blessing in general and specific in my case as they never got into trouble and both have very successful careers. Pointing to wine as foul because it contains alcohol is equally absurd. Having retired completely out of the wine business after 40 years in the biz, I would call the product mostly plonk, produced as post-harvest processing. This isn’t limited to hot inland valley wines. There are plenty of bottles of mouthwash produced in coastal growing areas as well. There are (rare) exceptions, with some truly excellent wines being produced world wide. But I don’t think civilization would collapse if wine was no longer being produced. I loved the wine biz and got out on my own terms but the product, as a category just ain’t that special.
“There are moves afoot in our culture to both celebrate the childless life and point to the foulness of wine for its categorization as alcohol. I don’t subscribe to either.”
I don’t understand the movement to celebrate the childless life. I consider my kids to be a blessing in general and specific in my case as they never got into trouble and both have very successful careers. Pointing to wine as foul because it contains alcohol is equally absurd. Having retired completely out of the wine business after 40 years in the biz, I would call the product mostly plonk, produced as post-harvest processing. This isn’t limited to hot inland valley wines. There are plenty of bottles of mouthwash produced in coastal growing areas as well. There are (rare) exceptions, with some truly excellent wines being produced world wide. But I don’t think civilization would collapse if wine was no longer being produced. I loved the wine biz and got out on my own terms but the product, as a category just ain’t that special.
Beautiful, from the heart, text. Kudos for the reference to Western civilisation.