Because wine is a bottomless thing, every way we try to put parentheses around it only serves to reduce it. How do you describe a wine that tastes like the first time, at the top of your favorite vineyard after an intense day of blending in the absolute perfect sunlight of a summer day, you kissed the woman who’d become your wife? There is no truly adequate way to convey the emotional power of that wine, nor the memories it conjures, let alone rate that wine on that auspicious day.
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