Saturday, September 19, 2009

Terroir

What Dasein is to philosophy, what duende is to poetry: _____ is to wine.

4 comments:

Sandra Simonds said...

Red or white?

(I hope red)

Thomas said...

Both, I think.

Sandra Simonds said...

Have you read Roland Barthes' essay "Wine and Milk"?

"through wine, the intellectual comes nearer to a natural virility, and believes he can thus escape the curse that a century and a half of romanticism still brings to bear on the purely cerebral."

Presskorn said...

Clever, Thomas... with 'Terroir' also being virtually untranslatable and all... Looking forward to the next post, which I predict will be called "Being and Terroir"....