In Reply to: The (wine) Garden of Eden #2 (a morality play)(sort of) posted by Eden Mylunsch on October 24, 2000 at 09:32:14:
... if true, shows why California is such a delightfully and incomprehensibly wacky place from anyone else's viewpoint (and twice as much from a quaint European viewpoint), but it also shows an utter lack of respect and appreciation for good wine that will further convince any European that the cause of wine is a lost one in California and that the 'trophy wine' culture is just the antithesis of the wine culture, period.Then again, if this story is merely a literary construction, then I must commend the author for so brilliantly recreating the reasons why California is such a delightfully and incomprehensibly wacky place from anyone else's viewpoint (and twice as much from a quaint European viewpoint), and particularly for showing the utter lack of respect and appreciation for good wine that will further convince any European that the cause of wine is a lost one in California and that the 'trophy wine' culture is just the antithesis of the wine culture, period.
Aesthetorium, huh? Ramon, 1/8th gypsy, huh? 1990 Latour in a nameless mug, huh?
Let me get back to the vineyard.
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