For a
long time I refrained from making any political comment, but I got to my
limits. Inside me is brewing more than a sense of absurdity of the political
class. Actually, I see, read and hear reports saying that wines are being
exported more as ever before and it makes that wineries do not disappear, which
I think is wonderful because it is saving many people from bankruptcy and
revealing wines produced in all areas of Spain. We have been taught that we
must be competitive and that has to do with being human and wanting to see more
safeguards of a world that is not as great as it looks.
I have no formula to change an outdated system of which we
are all responsible. As far as I know, the World has its own limits. We should
consider seriously exporting wine saying on its label "I come from Planet
Earth and I am responsible for the piece of land that was given to me for a
while and I will try to leave it to be enjoyed also by future generations".
The boors who have everything and want more and more and are not satisfied with
all what they have, we must tell them that there are not two Earths.
Nowadays we still see people jumping border fences, but
there is something worst and it is to have mental barriers. It makes to turn us
back to the wildest side of the humankind. Of course I want to enjoy good wines
with an excellent paired food and a better companion! When our ancestors
started to farming to avoid a lack of food, the mere act of eating and drinking
became transformed into something social and spiritual.
It has been said that we want to save the planet from
devastation and war, but let's face it, how many of us are working on it and we
are settled our daily lives. I insist that I have not the formula to change
capitalism, but I can change something and this something is inside me.
A bunch of grapes cannot give much, but many of them
produce wine. I think if many of us change may be we will see the solution. I
sincerely believe my brothers and sisters and mothers are the mothers of all
and there is nothing in this world that resembles a mother, so you have to
start respecting Mother Nature. I will not teach how to become a better human
being and how to take care our environment, but hey, someone has to remember!
There is nothing like having freedom and do those things we want to do, but we
have to respect our environment and disseminate what we do without fear of feel
caged in a body or mind. Humanity has never been able before to quickly change
thoughts and make people listen to them as today. Internet made us universal.
But beware, it also makes us more individualistic and makes us forget that we
are gregarious and imperfect human beings.
After searching the various arguments that make me human,
I believe in everything that reflects the public feelings. Socrates told his
disciples that they should think for themselves and this has taught mankind the
hemlock exists, therefore we have not let our guard down and believe that
everything will change overnight. The political geniuses who represent us have
become high class monsters that benefit and nourish from suffering of the
people. Sipping wines that most of us idolize and have exorbitant prices. But
what is this? To whom has thought about make a popular drink something
exclusive for a few people? Or as it is now, bottles sold as refuge for
fortunes and it does not even know if they are authentic or not.
Intelligence should be something to serve humankind, not
representing the immorality and lack of respect for others. As it is settled, quod natura non dat, Salmantica non
praestat. Sometimes, being less intelligent does not mean being stupid and
not knowing the value of things. Wine is like life itself, represents many
values that have been passed since humans learned how to produce it and enjoy
it. So, if anyone thinks that consumption has fallen sharply in Spain, you're
right. Prices of most of the wines have raised and the people has been involved
in a crisis invented by bright sparks and these have told that the fault was
due to those. How false they are! What would you do if someone tells you to ask
for whatever you want and you will only pay a small fee for the money received
and as they are so good that they will also give you money for the car?... They
have taken advantage of people.
They sold wine more expensive and they are still drinking
bottles that have been saved in tax havens paid with the sacrifice of many
people treated as ignorant. What a lack of respect! They believed that we would
not realize and that anyone would have the courage to tell them truth in front
of their faces. I feel nauseous when I think that there are people who only
look for their own personal interests believing that they can go around
teaching to be like them. How could someone who is also father, mother and
brother act in this way without any scruples and laughing at all?
Discover new wines is fine and saying that a wine is
delicious is one of my duties as wine writer. John Lennon said: “if you are
honest, you will not have many friends, but they will be the appropriate”
I have the duty to be like a fine wine and that wine must
be worthy and respect their terroir transmitting their generosity in the cup of
life, his death is most certainly there. Do not forget, I'll be watching from
the darkness of the cellar and denouncing the “bad grapes” in politics (in
Spanish “mala uva”, literally “bad grape”, also means bad temper).
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