“Just as Prometheus delivered stolen fire to man, so Eve, and the serpent, delivered man into self-consciousness, setting him up, were it not for his short lifespan, as rival to God. At the same time, man’s self-consciousness removed him from nature into a life of toil, doubt, fear, guilt, shame, blame, enmity, loneliness, and frailty—and the product of this separation, the fruit and flower of this exile, is, of course, culture. ‘God,’ said the writer Victor Hugo, ‘made only water, but man made wine.” ReligionCultureConsciousnessWineGreek MythologyBible StudyCreation Myths Book:For Better For Worse: Should I Get Married? Source: For Better For Worse: Should I Get Married?
“It has been said that when an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. But when a language dies, it is a whole world that comes to an end.” PhilosophyDeathCultureLanguageBooksThoughtAnthropologyCognition Author:Neel Burton
“Wine is one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman.” MenCultureIndividualProcessVisionSkillsWineClimateComplexesFruitSoilVintageBeveragesFungi Book:The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting, second edition Source: The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting, second edition
“While conversion of sugars to ethanol is the predominant reaction, it is only one of potentially thousands of biochemical reactions taking place during fermentation. As a result, wine contains trace amounts of a large number of organic acids, esters, sugars, alcohols, and other molecules. Wine is, in fact, one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman.” MenFactsCultureIndividualProcessResultsNumbersVisionAmountSkillsWineClimateComplexesFruitAlcoholConversionReactionsSoilSugarAcidMoleculesLarge NumbersVintageBeveragesFungiFermentationEthanol Author:Neel Burton
