We had no sense of “ecological time,” the cadence of the natural environment. Mostly, I experienced the natural world as lack.
My family’s understanding of religion was too individualistic for my liking. But I still wanted to hold faith in something bigger than myself.
If someone paid half a million for a single bottle of wine, how much did the grape harvesters earn making it?
Often, the vocabulary of wine is only accessible to people who have the time and money to learn it.
When the fires come, as they have for the past five years in California wine country, there is little winemakers can do.