Wine is a sort of paradox...

“Wine is a sort of paradox in our society.  It teaches us patience in a world that goes faster and faster and where the immediate and the urgent are the law.  It teaches us to make roots in a world where we travel without pause…  It teaches us conviviality in a world of violence and brutality.  Last, but not least, in a world which knows everything, where everything is known, everything is computerised, wine teaches us about uncertainty; it reminds us that life is always an uncertainty, a question without answer…  Wine is the only product in today’s world with this wonderful uncertainty.  I think it is the honour of our work…” As quoted by Baroness Philippine de Rothschild on receiving the 1996 Masi award.