Hello everyone. It’s great to be here with you today, after all that we’ve been through since 2019.
Imagine that wine … is music.
What sort of music? Doesn’t matter. Whatever you love most.
Do we even have to imagine?
Wine is … a sort of music.
It weaves patterns of scent and flavour rather than sound.
It brings solace to our lives, by taking us beyond ourselves, as music does, to a restorative elsewhere.
And it does this by touching us both intellectually and sensually, unlocking emotion in the process. Just like music.
There is a language of wine, as there is a language of music. We need to learn, by long study, how to unlock the subtleties of each, rather than producing a horrible din, discordant scents, flat flavours.
We need to learn how to taste it, too, at least if we want to explore wine culture to the fullest extent …
though of course we can all enjoy wine instinctively, just as anyone can enjoy a tune, a sequence of chords, a beautiful voice.
But … who composes the music of wine? Read full speech here
