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Least for me, tasting
notes rarely tell a whole story about the wines. For one thing, tasting notes are
fleeting. Tasting notes to me are a
single note in a song, a word in a sonnet, or a single stroke of brush on a
painting. I can only get the real deal,
the entire song, sonnet or painting, only with knowing the vignerons behind the wines.
If the tasting
notes of the same wine were composed six months or a year later, the tasting
notes would strung differently. The one reading them may not even know the
tasting notes are of the same wine. That
is the reason I glance at tasting notes but I pay undivided attention about vignerons. That is the reason all my newsletters start
with a story about the vignerons. And
that is the reason I visit each of our vignerons.
I make connection of wines through the vigneron,
and not by the wines themselves.
I have always
loved the word vigneron or vigneronne (female). There is no direct English translation. In French, it simply means vinegrower.
Just as it is the
silence between the notes that makes the music, it is the vignerons that grow the vines for each wine. I never buy wines; I pay vignerons.
