Reading between the Wines, With a New Preface

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Terry Theise. Reading between the Wines, With a New Preface

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READING BETWEEN THE WINES

With a New Preface

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No question in my mind where I'd rather be, and who I'd rather be.

Things of noise lead us inexorably into greater and greater coarseness and sensual incoherence. Noisy wines are fun from time to time, but like most of the coarser pleasures, they are easy to abuse and very bad for us. I publish a wee manifesto in my sales catalogues, and I recently updated it with a deliberately ambiguous statement: Many wines, even good wines, let you taste the noise. But only the very best wines let you taste the silence. Few have commented to me about that thought. I suspect they're being polite because they find it silly. Who knows, perhaps it is. But I know what I mean by it.

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