the way one bottle can change everything

i was tired, inordinately so, when we were graced by a visit from the good people of la garagista.  

i admit, i hadn’t really had many natural, let alone hybrid varietal wines that lit me up. i was, perhaps, a bit snobbish about them?  

sometimes a bottle changes everything. humbled to learn how little i know. delighted to dance at this edge. collaboration is the core of peter dixon’s thirty six years of cheesemaking, consulting, and teaching. with the #cornerstoneoriginal project this is more overt and more important than ever. so what divine luck to be visited by deirdre, caleb, mel and nicholas. paths crossing over thirty odd years brought them to our table on a sweltery afternoon in early july to taste a mountain of parish hill cheeses. the conversation left questions wisping at the periphery, and when the bottle of loup d’or was finally poured those wisps took wing. found myself squirreling aside time to read up at lagaragista.com and ping about @dmhparis insta feed. wending my way back to terroirreview.com and perusing paper copies of the art of eating. turns out it all comes back to the root, to the land, to farming. the narrative has been sidetracked, but maybe the reins are still in reach if we’re willing to stretch.