We won’t go back— got that right. We won’t go back. That’s one while the other is— mind your own damn business—
Had you been away say in an isolation chamber, perhaps a news fast, you were at a mountain retreat working on your sitting practice with a Thai forest monk. You will be forgiven if you missed the biggest turnaround in political fortunes in American history.
I’ve been dutifully pounding away at my next screenplay and have had precious little time to do much of anything else. Add to all these challenges the global heatwave. We have been almost ten degrees hotter on average this July than any of the other 130 July’s in California’s records. Boy, don’t I know it. Bicycle riding has been either over near the bay or not at all.
Climate emergency anxiety is now an everyday event covered in the news. It may look like a story about sea level rise, hurricane strengthening, powerful tornadoes, irresponsible irrigation districts, landslides, wildfires or the demise of our coral reefs.
Then we see stories of how California at least for part of one day was powered completely by renewable energy production. Technology may well save us all before it kills us all. We see the on again-off again herky-jerky world of battery electric transportation sales. Weird still is Wyoming keeps digging its heels in over digging up more coal.
Let’s push on—
Remember the name Jean-Yves Peron. Have a lousy memory then remember the initials JYP. Then, armed with this name go to a good wine shop, be sure they inventory natural wines, ask to see their selection of the wines of JYP, buy one, drink then discuss— We talked about a bottle of JYP’s Les Voisins— grown in Savoie, France and made from Carignan and Cabernet Sauvignon. This is what we call a low-intervention style of winemaking. Native yeasts, little if anything other than grape juice is added, once the organic biodynamic grapes are handpicked, they’re soon macerated then stowed in oak casks before bottling twelve months later.
This is a smart wine that possesses those who surrender to its allure. You will understand what it means to make wine with wit and layers— what I mean is you’ll get to see how one sip of wine can result in your identifying multiple flavors. There may be the initial floral impression, perhaps next a sense of dank flinty earth, followed by a longer revelation to do with a sense of landing the sip in a place you might describe as simply delicious.
JYP’s are a little pricey so be careful if you are not in the mood to be tantalized by what is hinted at but never overtly stated. Think of JYP’s wine as sort of like the lovely vision of see-through lingerie, where with your eyes you can see mere hints of hidden delights that you will soon be granted permission to open and enjoy. JYP’s wines are above all a sensual endeavor with notes of unforgettable carnal like satisfaction. You’ll want to stretch out upon the whitest white sheets in your room overlooking Lake Como then lighting a cigarette in the afterglow of your encounter while you ponder the wonders of the wine world.
That is enough friends. Summers end is closer now than its beginning, I hope you have spent some fragment of some of these days doing what you like most with a summer day.
And by God remember, we won’t go back
