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Throughout The Land is an open compendium of articles broadly related to wine and issues close to us. Interested parties are invited to send writings/articles to be considered for inclusion to wine@erwineshop.com. Please use subject heading “Article Idea for Throughout the Land.”
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
- B. Dylan
The late Marius Gentaz, Côte-Rôtie.
Some examples of current content.
On winemakers: “cote rotie’s marius gentaz is dead (may, 2011)”
i don’t know what he died of but i know what he lived for
beret-affixed tender of vines clutched to dazzlingly death-threat-like slopes
at cote brune and la landonne: marius a living part of lively ground; an early
legend not seeking fame in a land grudgingly revealing eminence
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marius dead after 88 years, the end of this 2011 february,
after the last harvest and before the next budding
Travel in Italy: “Riomaggiore, Blood On The Tracks, Malval By Josephine LaCosta”
I loved Riomaggiore. The humility of that sweet yellow orange and pink town, with green shutters, by the sea. The secret staircases led to new little moments each time I climbed them. There was an Italian word for them that one of the winemakers told us, all those stairs. I don’t remember. I liked the mist in the air and the really steep hills. I liked that the hillsides looked tropical and lush. I liked the way the wines tasted, like fresh rosemary flowers steeped in a glass of ocean. I liked the way the wines tasted with raw langoustines.
Miles Davis: “Miles Goes Away”
Who cares if the universe has no
Edge and embraces no center
As long, as far, as it is not amorphous?
But what does one do in or with a country,
of such vast space, that is so lonely,
Oh, all so lonely?
Wine Books: “Alice Feiring & The Dirty Guide To Wine“
And here is where Alice's book blossoms. It's a beautiful examination - by bedrock type - of looking at the world's great winemaking regions. Wines in her book are not categorized by grape or region. Often, perhaps unwittingly, in most discussion of the character and reputation of the finest wines, the kind of topsoil and bedrock they come from is left out. In The Dirty Guide To Wine, the key is not that a wine is a "Burgundy", or that it is Chardonnay, or its a Super Tuscan, but rather, wine is examined in context of the kind of soil it comes from.”
On winemakers: “Azienda Giacomo Conterno: Una Leggenda In Cielo Ed In Terra”
Having learned from a visionary and maintaining a firm grip on quality and tradition, Giovanni produced his first vintage on his own in 1959 - still under the watchful scrutiny of his father. Over the last now 25 years the hands-on winemaking at the winery is done by Giovanni’s son Roberto. As Roberto noted to me sometime ago “I always consult with my father on all the important decisions in making our wines.”
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