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posted on April 16, 2015
Hang around here long enough and you'll hear lots of conversations about Old World wines, and how they evolved. And even more stories about our winegrowers.
And despite the ocassional, "It's what's in the bottle that counts" comments, we hope we're communicating as best we can. I once had a customer tell me that the "stories" aren't important. We got past that quickly enough - those that "get it," and those that don't tend to view the world in different ways - I make no judgement.
But wines like those you'll find here are very different from what you'd find in a typical liquor store. And the stories of small local cultures that existed before "France," "Italy," or "Germany" were countries as we know them today, explain why "Burgundy" is Burgundy, and "Barolo" is Barolo. They are stories that speak of the humanity of wine - whether as a function of human cultural evolution, or the hard, physical, human effort that goes into producing fine wine.
Our winegrowers are a living part of this history. They understand the history, and their relationship to the cultures in which they live. And their humanity shows in every growing season when they interact with the forces of nature, and it shows in every bottle we're lucky enough to drink. Will you (or I, for that matter) LOVE every bottle?
Probably not. But hey, the wine's only human.
-DM
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