Re: Juenger, wine and comets

["Umberto Rossi" <urossi@programatic.it>]

> To Umberto Rossi finding the French climate unfavourable, I just get
> acquainted with wines from Elbe and Saale/Unstrut, rivers leading to the
> North Sea and, believe it or not, they do work, even in between comets ;-)

Well, I didn't mean to say that you cannot make good wine there; 
there's been even a wine production in Cornwall, and that's the
reason why English has all the technical terminology for wine-making.  
But climate makes a big difference.  In northern areas you have to 
keep your grapes on the vines for a longer time in order to get a 
sufficient alcoholic degree;  that means that your grapes are exposed 
for a longer time to the dangers of mold, fungi, etc.  You often 
spoil your product.  And often make a weaker wine, and that's where 
the bad annees come from.  In hotter climates making wine is easier:  
provided you respect the rules of the trade and are a honest 
winemaker, you have many good annees (I really miss the English term 
for annata) and a few bad ones--with or without the comets.

Having said that I pay the due respect to bordeaux, champagne and 
sauternes;  I'm a bit more skeptical about bourgogne.  If I have to 
pay all that money to drink that, I prefer to stick to our 
medium-structured wines.  In case you ever come to Rome, I have a 
bottle of Dolcetto d'Alba ready for you.  (but bring a bottle of 
those Elbe wines...)

And getting back to Juenger, I realize that wine is a quite 
Juengerian product, since it needs the intervention of so many 
elemental forces:  Erde, Sonne, auch Sternen.  And it resembles Blut, 
if you think of it...

Umberto Rossi

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To confer with a Volscian commission 
About perpetual peace"--and nobody told me!