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WineOK, so I drink wine. Quite a bit of it... Actually, by French and Italian standards, not nearly enough. I'd say just about right. I'd like to drink better wine, but not more wine. Wine is certainly one of those commodities defined more by its quality than its quantity. One very special aspect of wine derives from its consumption--once drunk it no longer exists (in its original form, that is.) And once all the bottles of a particular vintage from a particular vineyard are consumed, that wine and the associated experiences no longer exist. Pure memories. In one sense all this is trivial and banal--due to the linear nature of time everything in our past is pure memory, each event uniquely indexed by the a time and a place. But I speak about wine in this way because once you've enjoyed really good wine, and start collecting it (for consumptive, not investment purposes,) then the issue of consuming it verses preserving it becomes a serious one. The wine critic/writer for Slate (online) Mike
Steinberger, has some wonderful reads, including: |