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Five things: Wine and Mystery

Five things: Wine and Mystery

Save us from the cold, dread, trivial hand of wine "demystification"

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Jan 04, 2024
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1. Make Wine Mysterious Again

The enemies of myth are not the friends of reality but of triviality

…wrote the Columbian philosopher Nicolás Gómez Dávila in “Notas I”1. Each year I live in hope that we’ve reached peak wine “demystification”. Maybe 2024 will be that year. Dávila thought the opposite of myth was not rationality, but shallowness. By demystifyi…

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