#terroir

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Visitors to Burgundy … will sense all around them the history and religion. … They will know that this is hallowed soil: it has been blessed and cajoled and prayed for over the centuries, many of the vineyards being worked by monks for whom wine is not just a drink but a sacrament … Even in this skeptical age, their vine is something more spiritual than vegetal, and their soil more heaven than earth.

- Sir Roger Scruton, I drink therefore I am

Good wine is a ‘somewhere’, not an ‘anywhere’. It is stamped with a place and a year. Rooted, literally. The fancy French word for this is terroir, referring to the way in which environment - soil, geology, even the history of a place - is all responsible for a wine’s character. Terroir is a sense of place in a glass. Roger Scruton often referred to himself as a ‘terroiriste’. And this could describe his political philosophy as much as his philosophy of wine. From 2001 to 2009, Scruton wrote a wine column in the New Statesman, enabling him to smuggle into that otherwise exclusively Left-wing journal, all sorts of reactionary political ideas: about God, about fox-hunting, about beauty, about his love of the countryside.

Wine, for Scruton, was never just about the taste, never a merely aesthetic sensation. Indeed, he was extremely sniffy about all those ‘blind tastings’ — the ones where we delight when an expert fails to spot the difference between plonk and Premiere Cru. They miss the point, says Scruton. Blind tasting, he explained, is like blind kissing — not a good way to distinguish, for example, between someone who is sexy and someone who is not. Indeed, if the experiment on Love Island is anything to go by, it’s not even a good way to distinguish who your own girlfriend is.

That’s because sexual chemistry, like wine, is a great deal more than some momentary sensation on the lips. It’s a great deal more than a message sent by taste receptors to the brain. It is all about the terroir. And this is not just a comment about wine but about aesthetic experience in general. When we encounter a work of art, we bring a whole hinterland of knowledge that makes sense of that specific experience and gives it its character as art. Music is more than a vibration of the air and its reception by the ear and the brain. So too with wine and taste.

But scientists often get very sniffy about terroir. They think it’s some quasi-spiritual rubbish that has been invented by snotty French vineyards to give them a commercial edge. Writing in Decanter magazine, the geologist Professor Alex Maltman challenged the very idea that geology has any particular contribution to a wine’s taste. “Vines and wine,” he wrote, “are not made from matter drawn from the ground, but almost wholly of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen, abstracted from water and the air.”

Scruton wrote about wine very differently - not because he disagreed about the science but because he understood aesthetics very differently. He bemoaned the way in which aesthetic experience had come to be seen as something separable and distinct from questions of the good, or the true, or of politics or indeed anything else. That’s why his wine column ranged so far and wide. Beauty, for example, an idea that lies at the centre of Scruton’s philosophy, is as much a moral as it is an aesthetic phenomenon. There is no wall between them.

His writing about wine could be a bit sentimental maybe. But what is going on in his love affair with Burgundy is as much about Scruton’s politics of place, his conservatism. At the centre of his political thought, was the idea of loyalty to place and to those with whom you share space as being of supreme value. This contains a sense of solidarity with the land – hence his thoroughgoing environmentalism — but also to the history of a place and its spirituality. And here we bump into what is most potentially dangerous about Scruton’s thought. Soil and sacrificial blood are, after all, ideas beloved by fascists.

But it is important to emphasise that he never thought the nation state should be celebrated in terms of race or creed. For him, it was a commitment to place, and the shared and common institutions, customs and traditions that make a place what it is.

Moreover,  Scruton’s conservatism wasn’t aggressive. Wine, when drunk properly, relaxes people and introduces conviviality. People fight over oil, he once remarked, but not over wine. As he once put it about wine-growing in the Lebanon, “Invade the producer and you lose the product; trade with him peacefully and you are supplied from year to year.” Indeed, “Hezbollah don’t occupy the Beqaa because of Chateau Musar – if they did, peace would quickly come to southern Lebanon.”

Wine, and indeed terroir-ism, was, for him, the product of, and encouragement towards, peace and civility. What he had in mind here was more the wine of the Greek symposium than that guzzled in quantity by the boorish drunk. His idea of heaven was that of domestic home-loving contentment, with friends sitting around the table drinking wine, sharing ideas. There is nothing remotely fascist about this.

#scruton #roger scruton #quote #wine #drink #drinking #vineyard #society #farming #culture #terroir #soil #burgundy

[didzblog]

Life is too short to drink bad wines 🍷

The best day is Winesday 🍇

#wine cellar #oenology #sommelier #wine lover #tastevin #wine maker #fermented fruits #vignerons #grapes #bacchus #wine tasting #oak barrel #pomerol #bordeaux #france #vintage #merlot #terroir #17th century #domaine

[celebratingwomen]

Stephanie Beatriz photographed by Noah Asanias for Terroir Magazine, May 2018

#stephanie beatriz #actress #actor #model #magazine #photoshoot #fashion #style #famous #celebrity #hair #makeup #terroir magazine #terroir #2018 #2010s

[psychophore]

Authority

#mouse #dark art #horror art #macabre #jeff vandermeer #southern reach trilogy #black and white #annihilation book #terroir #gore #rat #illustration #flora #plants #sketch #authority book #artists on tumblr #my art #ms paint #ms paint art

[reno-matago]

I finally asked for my silkworm cocoons at museum collections service, my dudes!

My collegues: ''Oh, why do you need it?''

My soul: "These are offerings for Athena, may be Circé and probably to try magical things or spirit communication, and a perfect symbol of the land''

My real answer: ''I love nature curios!''

No seriously, this exhibition about silk workers in Lyon at the beginning of the century is a blessing.

My city, beside of the Lion ( which is not an original symbol of Lyon ('' Lugh-On'') was famous for silk work at Renaissance, under impulse of Napoléon, and also for the roses culture. we even have a suspended garden at work, based on vegetal symbolism of the XVIth, that's why I would love work with roses and offer it more often.

The origin of the name Lugdunum is not very clear. Some says it means Hill of Lugh, gaulish god of light and crafts, or Hill of the Light, but romans thought it meant ''Hill of the crows'' cause they saw crows when they founded the city.

And this hill, we call today Fourvière was probably the temple of the Juno-Jupiter-Mercury triad (i'm not sure) archeologists believed for a long time it was a sanctuaire for Cybele, but others disagree! Today, it's still connected to light, la Basilique de Fourvière, consecrated to Mary the Virgin. She was prayed for healing the plague, and Lyonnais celebrate it 8th december by lightning candles everywhere with Big light shows in the street.

Oh and I haven't even spoken of the legends ..we have a beautiful Park, Parc de la Tête d'or (''golden head'' of a legendary statue of Christ hidden in the Park), we have a dragon in the river, the Mâchecroute, and an Island with legends about the SangGraal & lavandières de la nuit, female ghosts washing the clothes of the dead in the river.

We have a White Lady, la Dame Blanche de la Croix Rousse. Lyon is also the city of Spiritisme and a true base of Freemasonry since the XVIIth.

We also have the famous Johan of Arc room for mediumship, and i can't continue it would be too long. (Nostradamus, devil worship, werewolves, heretical sects, cérémonial Magic, tempestari, catacombs and incredible tunnels, chapel of Saint-Expedite...)

Cool, isnt it?

( OH FUCK WAIT I DIDNT REALIZED...Loa Ghede Spider behind, must be pretty happy, Hello you! 😯 🕸️🕷️)

#diary #journal #lyon #france #lyonnais #Athena #circe #silkworm #silkworm cocoons #january 2023 #legends #folklore #terroir #land #city legends #ghosts #freemasonry #hellenic polytheist #lugh #god Lugh #lugdunum #light #hellenic polytheism #polytheism #goddess athena #greek gods #saint expedite #spiritism #mediumship #spider

[likedrotten]

starchild! ⭐️

#rotten art #rotten oc #terroir #this lil guy is my current brainworm they're rotting my brain out of my skull

[francepittoresque]

GASTRONOMIE | Fromage de Tamié en Savoie : un destin lié à l’abbaye depuis 1132 ➽ https://bit.ly/2MQdPhk Le fromage de l’Abbaye de Tamié se distingue par sa couleur safran avec un léger duvet blanc et sa pâte beige, homogène et crémeuse. C’est la principale source de financement du monastère cistercien installé à 900 m d’altitude, sur le flanc Est du massif des Bauges, à la limite de la Haute-Savoie

#gastronomie #fromage #Abbaye #Tamié #monastère #cistercien #massif #Bauges #Savoie #produits #terroir #France

[mmmmouthanus]

Still from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), directed by Mel Stuart

#soil #terroir #willy wonka #augustus gloop #mulching #moderation #permaculture

[pedrogil73]

Joseph Faiveley Pinot Noir 2020. Mis en bouteille par Faiveley à Nuits-Saint-Georges. Côte-D’Or. Bourgogne (AOC). 13% France 🇫🇷 • Pinot Noir 100% • Rojo rubí, brillante. Recuerdos de frutos rojos, cerezas. Frutos de bosque. Fresco. En boca frutos rojos, taninos finos y redondos. Estructurado. Especiado. • Mi Puntuación 93/100 • #elcatador #brindoconelcatador #faiveley #france #pinotnoir #winegeek #winetime #winelovers #vinsbourgogne #vineyard #terroir #lapenadelquijote #lapeñadelquijote #chateaubaccarat #vinrouge #vin (en Dominican Republic) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnA-Hc1LiBT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#elcatador #brindoconelcatador #faiveley #france #pinotnoir #winegeek #winetime #winelovers #vinsbourgogne #vineyard #terroir #lapenadelquijote #lapeñadelquijote #chateaubaccarat #vinrouge #vin

[piwisconseil]

Très bon diner au @lejardinduclocher_restaurant Au cœur de Lautrec . #restaurant #chef #cuisine #patisserie #snacking #lautrec #Tarn #occitanie #ailrose #bienmanger #terroir #circuitcourt #producteur #locavore @ailroselautrec_labelrouge_igp #soupealail #ilovemyjob @piwisconseil #piwisconseil [email protected]* www.piwisconseil.com @pascal_ackermann_piwis_conseil (à Lautrec, Midi-Pyrenees, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChZeZNcoWVw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#restaurant #chef #cuisine #patisserie #snacking #lautrec #tarn #occitanie #ailrose #bienmanger #terroir #circuitcourt #producteur #locavore #soupealail #ilovemyjob #piwisconseil

[yoshimihasegawa]

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[blackswaneuroparedux]

Il y a un lien très étroit entre le flacon, l’endroit, le moment et les gens avec qui vous le dégustez.

- Eric Level

#level #eric level #quote #wine #drink #drinking #du vin #french #eva green #femme #beauty #ambrosia #terroir #culture #nature

[pourlevin]

Mon cri : je crois au cru !

Ce qui suit est un article (ou un pamphlet ?) publié en 2010 sur le site Les5duVin, site que j’ai modestement contribué à lancer vers les années 2000. J’y évoquai une passion pour ce que l’on appelle communément un “cru”, un “lieu”, un “terroir, une “appellation d’origine contrôlée” spécifiquement communale qui se traduit, lorsque l’affaire est jugée apte et méritée, par le droit de nommer…

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#AOP #Aupihac #Hérault #Languedoc #Montpeyroux #South of France Wines #Terroir #Vins du Sud

[olitaly]

#caratteristiche #cultivar #terroir #varietàolive

[peterpauldoodkorte]

eeuwige glimlach

zuiver en jongis nog de wijnrankals zich de liefde meldtmet prachtig de lotendie zij spruiten laatrijk en vol is het levenin het volle besefgeniet elk momentals druiven in trossenhet terroir van de wijngaardals seizoenen verstrijkenrijpt zich de liefdetot donkerrood fruitwitte chocoladedan wel kruidige rosé van druif tot glasprachtig en uitdagendbloeit de wijngaardmet pittig de helling somstussen…

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#dauw #druppels #glimlach #terroir #wijngaard

[eugephemisms]

Irresistible Italy: Azienda Agricola Col Paré

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#Andrea De Marchi #Arfanta #Azienda Agricola Col Paré #Biodiversity Friend #Chardonnay #Col Pare #Conegliano #Glera #Metodo Ancestrale #Muscaris #Passito di Glera #Principe Vino Bianco Frizzante #prosecco #Tarzo #Terroir #Treviso #UNESCO World Heritage Site #Verdiso