Les Taylor's sometimes-daily thoughts: 2020

This is the idea

This is the implementation

Almost done. still need to cover holes and paint

... wine

"In France they do things through meticulous study with very little experimentation and trying to understand what they have around them. In the US you have people over here that go, 'Well, well shit can I grow wine here? I don't know? Well Frank lets give it a try. '"

Madeline Puckette, Wine Folly

Somm: Into the Bottle

"Wine is sunlight, held together by water." The poetic wisdom of the Italian physicist, philosopher, and stargazer, Galileo Galilei. It all begins with the soil, the vine, the grape.

The smell of the vineyard - like inhaling birth. It awakens some ancestral, some primordial... anyway, some deeply imprinted, and probably subconscious place in my soul.

- Steven Spurrier - Bottle Shock

I like to think about the life of wine. How it's a living thing. I like to think about what was going on the year the grapes were growing; how the sun was shining; if it rained. I like to think about all the people who tended and picked the grapes. And if it's an old wine, how many of them must be dead by now. I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I'd opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it's constantly evolving and gaining complexity. That is, until it peaks like your 61’ and then it begins its steady, inevitable decline.

And it tastes so fucking good.

-Maya, Sideways

You have to have it in your blood, you have to grow up with the soil underneath your nails, the smell of the grapes in the air that you breathe. The cultivation of the vine was an art form. The refinement of the vine is a religion that requires pain and desire and sacrifice.

- Gustavo Brambila - Bottle Shock

Wine is like people. The vine takes
all the influences in life all around it.
It absorbs them and it gets its personality.

- Luc Teyssier - French Kiss

Les Taylor's sometimes-daily thoughts

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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

December and enjoying a bit of life

Friday, November 06, 2020

Fall in Northern Nevada

Saturday, October 24, 2020

More home improvement 2020 DIY

Sunday, June 07, 2020

J's room renovation

Friday, May 15, 2020

UNR Graduation 2020 drive by

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Laundry room is getting some cabinets

Wednesday, April 08, 2020

COVID Masks for everyone

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

COVID is a problem, hopeful that we get a handle on it

Sunday, March 08, 2020

Renovation on the kid's old bathroom

Monday, February 24, 2020

Maddie comes over and makes us dinner for a college project.

Sunday, February 16, 2020

GO Pete for 2020, Pete Buttigieg visited us in Sparks Nevada at Sparks High School