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Wine & Spirits

3 4 TH ANNUAL B UY I NG G U ID E

EDITOR'S NOTE

Signal
joy
S

ome people drink wine for the alcohol.
Some for the sweetness it brings. Some
people like the feeling of wine in their
mouth, the rich melding of tannins and fruit
that creates a voluptuous texture.
Our team hopes not to be swayed by those
aspects of wine. If anything, we bring a critical
eye, nose and mouth to bear on excess or
unattached alcohol-we enjoy drinking wine
and want to keep our wits about us as we do-
and on sugar, which, when it's overt, tends to
cover the identiﬁable character of a wine with
generic sweetness. As do voluptuous tannins,
which can be created in a cellar.
In perfectly ripe fruit straight from the vineyard, voluptuous tannins are rare, requiring the
alignment of an optimal growing season and carefully tended vines nourished by living soils.
When those factors come together, the ﬂavor detail excites us.
When we ﬁnd fruit sweetness with dynamic energy, it catches our attention.
And when alcohol is invisibly incorporated into a wine, it tends to warm our spirits rather
than burn our throats.
We drink wine for a connection, a signal from the place where it grew. The signal may be
there in the ﬂavor of the fruit, the texture of the tannins and in any number of ways that the
energy of the wine may express itself.
This issue of Wine & Spirits is ﬁlled with the wines that excited us most over this past year
of tastings, wines we tasted with friends in the trade. Knowing only their vintage, region and
variety, several of us caught a signal that spoke directly to us. They are wines we want to share.
The best of these wines bring us joy; they ﬁll us with energy. They seem to transmit their
energy to us, unmediated, in a connection to the earth we rarely experience from foods,
unless those foods are tomatoes picked from a vine and popped into the mouth, ﬁsh caught
in a river and pan roasted over a ﬁre, or potatoes cooked soon after they were dug from the
earth. Unlike most foods, wine preserves that immediate connection for months, or years, or
decades. It honors our world, as it honors the place the vines live.

JOSHUA GREENE

https://www.grahams-port.com/

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