A Cool Dip Into The Metaphysical

Tonight at close we were left contemplating the great Robert Hass line: "All the new thinking is about loss." It's a line we often return to but can't always figure out why; of course that never stops us from soliciting a guess. Have you ever felt as though you are on the precipice of everything you want only to suffer one intrusion or last minute depletion, everything you could ever want in a person, a wine, a business, a life etc... What is left then, the shrug of the shoulders, the vulgar dismissive and the inevitable yoke of going on? 

Here at Cépage we firmly believe that Jean-Paul Brun of Terres Dorees makes some the greatest wines in the world, in particular an utterly endearing Rosé. Yet, on its own, say without a plate of carnitas or a loved one and the warm spring sun, something seems to go missing, between the thought and the expression so to speak. Sadly, this seems to happen so much in life.

A good friend of ours, thankfully somewhat of a romantic, recently told us that he'd finally met a common ground girl, yet, predictably, she was tied to another. However, he was determined not to let it go to nameless dust. If we were to relate that to wine, and we relate everything to wine, we might say it's like the first time you have a wine and all the pieces fit: tasteweightdepthatmospherepersonfood... 

And that's talking about hope.