Musical – bottledaux

So I opened it. Yes, I opened it. Because I wanted to. And I’m sooooo glad I did, elated actually, visibly fractionalized in my joy. The first Kosta Browne I’ve ever opened in my home– “Oh, Mike, you’re such a follower…” Yeah, so? Don’t you buy the wines you follow, or open the ones from the producers you admire? And I didn’t buy this enigmatically verbal bottle, actually. It was a gift from Mr. Michael Browne himself, and I drink this and feel inspired and moved and wanting more exploration of Pinot, but why, I think, none of them will be this good, with the amorous ebb of thick cherry and raspberry and a little Dutch chocolate.. not much pepper or spice but a marvelously meek terrestrial hug and herbaceous jab on “the finish”. But this wine doesn’t finish, it’s prose and poetry and a novel and a short narrative flash. And I couldn’t be more eased and in a wondrously warping Utopia oeno-coma with this bottle, this modernized yet integrity-checkered staple doing true to those imbued Burgundian roots.

Drank the remaining two glasses the following night, which is tonight. And it’s gone. And I’m lowered, with a reflectively slow but charged tide and cognitive seismology, and how, well it’s a Kosta Browne, what do you mean ‘how’? This Pinot makes more more a lover of the type but also more reserved– I mean, how many out there are with this fortitude and charm, allure, enchantment, bewitchedness? Honestly I’m not in my prowess usual to react to what I met in this gifted bottle– and Pinot, such a shapeshifting character and amebic transient of a wine structure I’m not at my most stalwart with the pen, this evening. I’m looking to the Kerouac ‘Book of Dreams’ for answers, since I feel and felt and still so much feel like I’m dreaming after finishing a KB Pinot in my new house, that I’m just a sipping wine-loving-writer-wandered, shamed, and humbled, and taught. And maybe that’s why he gave me the bottle, my new friend Michael, to teach me something; about wine and about Pinot and about me, my unionization of wine and Literature and about everything, some Postmodern pondering. For what? That’s the point: no “point”. Just the moment, the capturing of it in my wine journal, this dream, this new bottle Beat in Pinot’s pervasive pulse– cherishing the trenchant charm of what this is; wine and love and Art, all in Pinot, from a lagniappe, a chorded exhortation and discourse; a class, a notestream, and lecture and story and containing instructional and ambrosial hilarity. A wine that teaches and so much else in its verses, and that’s what I should have been writing about this entire oration; the musical tide of this RRV Pinot’s voice. It was like Michael told me, about the river of Life, riding it and seeing where it takes you, and at times it’s trying and turbulent, but the reward’s there. And I sipped one of them last night and this eve. So I’m sent, taught, reconciled.
Vino. And Literature. Like I’ve always lauded.

MM97

(5/17/15)

A day of encompassing poetry. No prose, as promised. Only now can I let Self swim in sentence. Back to work, come morrow, in Alexander Valley. I was told we may visit some gifted library bottles, from another winery. But we’ll see, and I’m entirely excited even at the prospect of palate contact with the bottle questioned. Rain may be returning later in eve, which would be wonderful for finishing the spoken word song I started writing this morning; Think I only have 12 lines to go. Wrote the chorus this afternoon. Not posting this to blog. It’s music, song. Want it to be real writing, on a page, like wine in its bottle. Tangible, not virtual. May write more in bed, start a new poem project. All day, had rhymes, meter floating in my vision. Dominated by musical writing, words. Not my day–it belonged to poetry. I was steered by meter, verse. Felt sensational, to be dominated by song, my songs, a song I’m writing.

Highlight of the day had to be when little Kerouac woke this morning. Never seen him laugh and smile with such frequency, force. Would have finished my song if I hadn’t heard him cooing, sounding for his father. Little Jack controls all aspects of this author. Thinking that when I do finally get whoso cellars airborne, I want to name a project after him, one I do year to year. And speaking of winemaking dreams, realities: Mom, during her visit with grandma today (a Kerouac visit), told me that Professor Katie said to tell me to be patient with our project. All we can do right now is wait, which is precisely the struggle with this instantaneous writer, when it comes to a winemaking life. Wait? How do I do that? I want to taste, especially now that ML is done.

Tonight’s nightcap, completely rare for me. A Snickers and a chilled glass of milk. No wine tonight. First, no bottles were open, wasn’t in the mood to pop anything from the small salvo I have. And, I wasn’t of mood nor mind for wine. And when I say “wine,” I mean beer as well. I plan to be up late, even though I’m due at AV Winery’s estate in a morrow’s morrow. Want to get a couple more standalone’s written. They’ll be shorter, obviously, than the one I began this morning, which brings 3 verses and a short chorus. Want to read to crowds. Want to perform, sings, interact; hear cheers, screams. Artistry, life for me…

About to read through the current issue of Rolling Stone. Springsteen on cover. Rockstar poet, me. A wanna-be, I see. But one day. Want arenas overflowing… Think I hear rain, drops in the drain, or gutter on the wall’s other side. Approaching word limit. Just fantasizing tonight. Tour dates. Onlookers singing along. Soundchecks. Wine in my hotel Room, writing in a rime log. Much of such verse won’t be on any ridiculous blog. Too artful for wine’s road.

[3/30/12, Friday]

Tag: Musical

MOCK SOMM: Kosta Browne Winery, Giusti Ranch, Russian River Valley, Pinot Noir, 2013

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