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Probably one of my most talked-about or mentioned SB’s.  The texture and thicker tropical music and air, taking me somewhere.  Beginning of ’23, months before meeting the person I was meant to spend forever with.

That’s what wine is, honestly.  A reminder, an urgency and loving shove to find love, passion.  Something that keeps you awake but in an for the best ways and reasons.

I helped out in Dave’s TR in downtown St. Helena for about a year I think.  What I loved most was telling and retelling his story, how he started Orin Swift, and then my story with wine, then asking what brought them, the guests, to Napa.

The woman on this label, in this picture, staring at me… this VVV book and blog, shop, me speaking from wined experience and walks in the vineyard in the morning or whenever.  Reminded before I check into the shop this morning that wine is more of a Why than a What.

Not sure how to explain it, not going to lie.  But the sentence plays and replays.  I think of love in my life with this Goddess Nurse, what we have and where we’re going.  And how time is not only quick but merciless in its one task – TO MOVE.

I stare at this page not with any blankness but intention and purpose, a new tell and swell of conviction and certitude.

Two wines to be tasted tonight.  One an SB from Santa Barbara, mentioned in the dinner scene in Sideways, then some imported Pinot that I’ve never had.  So.. straying from business plan for the night a bit.  Only have the flight is imported.  Only two bottles so not sure it’s a “flight” to be frank, but still, an hike through profiles and senses, emotions, moods and new poetry.