Oenology
The Art of Aging Gracefully
In Bordeaux, the growers who plant for a harvest they will not taste.
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A vine planted this spring will give nothing worth bottling for another decade. The grower who plants it is making a promise to a successor.
We spent three mornings on an estate where that arithmetic is simply how the work is measured, and where the word patience is never used because nobody there considers it a virtue worth naming.