Levi Dalton
Levi Dalton
One of the most interesting and thought provoking pieces of writing I have read all year (up there with Mr. Texier's Chauvet comments) is an explanation entitled True Romance, by Joe Dressner, wine importer. The article is found in Diner Journal issue no. 13, recently released. I have not found an online link to share for True Romance.
Under fair use, I would share the following:
"Jean-Paul Brun's 1991 Beaujolais a l'Ancienne was one of the most beautiful wines of my lifetime. I drank it in February of 1992 while it was in...vat...There is nothing more unnatural than trying to compress a vineyard and year's work into a 750 milliliter container...In many ways, the natural wine movement is a movement to bring that immediacy into the bottle...What exactly is a natural wine? For me, it's a wine that tastes like it fell off the vine and into a bottle..."
I assume the title of the piece makes reference to Emerson's "The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conducted, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction." Although it is always possible that Joe is just a big Tarantino fan.
Under fair use, I would share the following:
"Jean-Paul Brun's 1991 Beaujolais a l'Ancienne was one of the most beautiful wines of my lifetime. I drank it in February of 1992 while it was in...vat...There is nothing more unnatural than trying to compress a vineyard and year's work into a 750 milliliter container...In many ways, the natural wine movement is a movement to bring that immediacy into the bottle...What exactly is a natural wine? For me, it's a wine that tastes like it fell off the vine and into a bottle..."
I assume the title of the piece makes reference to Emerson's "The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conducted, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction." Although it is always possible that Joe is just a big Tarantino fan.