Les Taylor's sometimes-daily thoughts: 2023

A shot from my room at U.C.Davis, 2 weeks isolation.

... 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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Saturday, November 11, 2023

Trip to Portland 2023

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Out for a hike in the desert.

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Fall in Reno

Friday, July 21, 2023

Sacramento - Games, family, healing and finally coming home!!!

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

I have to live in Sacramento California for a couple of months for some health care. Airbnb here we come.

Sunday, May 14, 2023

A new gate and some photos of the yard

Saturday, April 29, 2023

Just a bit of fence fixing between my property and the property to the east.

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

After all the holes in the drywall were repaired (whole house plumbing change), finally paint!!!

Friday, April 07, 2023

Plumbing Disaster, re-piping the whole house

Wedding Shower

Saturday, March 11, 2023

Savage Starlight Comic Book Blender #B3D arrangement from The Last Of Us game