I guess we can all remember what we sang of small and surely many of you, parents today still sing with their children.
An elephant balanced on the web of a spider,
and saw that it held was to call another elephant ...
Two elephants were swaying ... and so that was a real team of elephants acrobats swinging on a chandelier resistant fabric.
Now substitute the figure of the elephant by "viñerón" and the spider web on the Internet and get to sing the hymn "viñerón" smart, he discovers in union with others and in the harmonic motion and constant in the Network, great opportunity to show, to be available to your customers, open creative business opportunities, etc.
Do not know if it was by the Great Wyoming or because the wines I sat really well and I had no hangover or probably a mixture of both, I left humming Llops amb Tast this nursery rhyme. Because in this case was nearly complete representation of the idea: a group of quality wine makers no intervention of exogenous products or vineyard or winery, aware of the terroir with which they work and the wonders they can do with it and also aware of the importance of communicating. 
To me and I can not forget. I loved it, for example, the conversation with Sara Perez (where do I link you, Sara?) And his passion for surely it is the same one that makes its wines. Teacher describing the process as risky as vital, to make wine naturally, his face looks all eyes tells you I do the wine because it is life, this is the way I feel creative and proud.
The same is true of Fredi Torres , alma mater of Tast amb Llops with whom to meet we hug like we were lifelong friends.
I want these wines in my life! Because I met her "viñerón" I spoke with them and until I witnessed the baptism of one of them: "Cañarets", so the wine will be called "North" of Sao of Coster , a suggestion accepted Joan.
They were the wine and its "viñerón" the restaurant's exquisite aperitif Cal Llop , the festival of Gran Wyoming and lovely surroundings of one of the most impressive landscapes of the wine world, the Priorat. Not missing, not missing or the bee-eaters , birds of good omen, recently arrived from Africa, detected by Joan and Martha.
The ideal would be to maintain contact with the "wolves" of wine. Able to tell my browser "Taste amb Llops" and find a page with a history of previous editions, with news about the wineries and their creation. The would be among my favorites and even think of buying online because they know them.
The "viñerón" that cause this type of encounter is they are doing what needs to be done in terms of seeking encounter with lovers of their wines.
Not that I say so or so many others in the public domain. No, I say "experts" at such charges.
"The younger generations are the future in selling quality wine" , is coming to say Bruce Tyrrell, Mondavi and many other heavyweights in the Fine Wine 2010 . The future of the quality wine market is in the hands of the younger generation that dominate the Internet, they want to know "viñerón" in person and will be more willing to buy direct to the winery.
The point of no return in the wine culture of inexorably approaching and once again is in the hands of the producers decide they want to be playing this game, if the court or watching from the bench.
Salut to the "wolves" of wine and all the "viñerón" who manage to make strong points of encounter and come out to play as a team.
A moving description of the event, Malena! The bee-eaters greeted our departure from Torroja to Gratallops at a meeting, year after year, is moving. I have seen in Africa and in the Priorat reencontrarles I like. Its song is like one of my favorite wines: it seems almost a whistle of water, smooth, light, almost watery.
It tasted really bad not being able to chat with Sarah. The ratillo that was in place was Barbier Jr. and, now, is not the same ...
I hope to have time to write a small chronic morning how I lived some of the things that weekend. I fear that we will not agree on some views, but that's healthy, healthy!
A kiss,
Joan
Joan course, is the experience! How to tell it in thin sectioned technical descriptions ... plus I can know this it has to stay in your area! If I can say that I ecnontrado more than once as if floating enjoying the sensations of cold, clear water that cause me some wine.
I liked Sara's talk because I felt comfortable listening to it, without feeling that a license had to submit letters of marque. I find these days in finding a way to refer to these wines without my pulse tremble, or having to get permission in a public office. When it does, plus enjoy them, I will not have a great weight.
It is not very healthy concidir Joan, the opposite results in authoritarian forms of relationship that we know and reject the first place.
I stayed with Fredi to go do a tour of those vineyards, go deeper into the knowledge of what they do and I promised to reveal more crazy ideas are barruntando.
I turn and I will be reporting on tenterhooks to know what ... if you do not agree that we are in the enjoyment of the good things of life, the creation and recognition of creators.
A kiss
Malena
Already resolve it now: do not agree on the goodness of the catering, which I found really a rather low level ... I do not speak of the "smell" that flooded the area fritanga.
In the other I do not agree with you is in your statement that it was "a group of quality wine makers no intervention of exogenous products or vineyard or winery, aware of the terroir in which they work." Some say that when writing, but there was a wide disparity in the meeting, criteria for work in the vineyard and the winery, most of these (that, most) use chemicals in the vineyard and the winery and, yes, cas are all very aware of the soil they till and the reaping, but I confess that I was unable to detect what the saw Gratallops vila. I saw many different terroirs, Cate varied things but few remained in the memory. Admittedly, the date and varied level of maturation of the wines in barrel or bottle did not play for what was one of loos objectives of the session. The others, who were having fun and enjoying the site, company, concert, rainbow and some wines that came in good time, they are fully achieved.
Kisses!
Joan
I feel I must answer this comment, otherwise I would be cowardly :)
I receive it as the teacher who demands rigor someone who can give. That in addition to rigor requires confidence in your own judgment and not overconfidence in reality so that you square the picture.
With the cards submitted by the organization and completed by the producores, I see that 10 producers that were presented, 4 say work biodynamic farming, a traditional green and the rest. In some cases like Celler de L'Abbaye, Celler Cecilio, Clos de la Figuera, detail the ways of farming and working at the winery, showing signs of extreme rigor and selectivity. Since most websites are terrible, very little or no information you can get from them.
Turning to yeast, 6 of 10 wineries report using indigenous yeasts, only one Ripoll Sans llevaduras declares the use of selected (although in conversation he had with Stefan Lismond were very excited in the process of conversion to biodynamic organic farming, complaining about how expensive the case).
I only had a chance to ask a farmer about working in the vineyard and cellar and drew back as if to ask for the devil himself. Interestingly one of the most serious seemed to convey in the matter.
On Thursday, 13 will come down to visit Fredi and I intend to discuss all these things.
Moreover, I had no hangover or headache in the end felt it was more of the same and left to prove. I felt no fried food, catering me well, the idea certainly remarkable and expensive and can be performed by a quixotic! a feat worthy of reconocmiento and give forth. These days more than ever esepcial is what I'm talking about.
I like this way of wine hors norm, I think, as David de Ugarte who collaborate to bring to the table discussions today: what world we live in what world we live, how we can participate from our little bit for us life more beautiful and livable one to the other.
Dear Joan yesterday, today and hopefully tomorrow unless they are being bad times for poetry.
A hug teacher (and let me feel that way)
Malena
When you, dear Fabregat, has a refuge in reading Martial or of Horace, Sappho and Pindar, Virgil and from here to Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, is never a bad time for poetry!
That has, moreover, people as young as any we saw on Saturday, to which his face lights up when he talks about his things in the vineyard and the winery, when their little eyes expectantly observe your reaction to the wine you put, it means that the lyric is alive. If we put the lyrics a little nuts, a bit of good bread, a few drops of good oil and any such Priorat wines with their wine, we go straight to the Homeric epic. There we find, friend, intentanto the horse of the treacherous Achaeans not enter Troy (although I confess that Ithaca is a winery whose wines any I like!).
Good night!
Joan
How great Joan! That is good conversation and difference. Me back, unknowingly, in conversation with the mother, with Homer and with sources. You give me the pleasure of wine and conmivada subtlety of the look ... "when their little eyes expectantly observe your reaction to the wine that put you, it means that poetry is alive." And I think that look, that game looks, can be one of those transcendent moments in the life of the creator and creation.
Richard Sennett takes in "The Craftsman" (Anagram), the figure of Hephaestus and the shield of Achilles, to discuss the craftsman proud of himself, that all men are, but has been sleepy, backed into a corner because of the soul of industrialized times, objectifying. He proposes that these are good times for dejararlo emerge again, our being creative, high, dialogue, reflective.
From now on I will consider exercising the view to see as far as possible and with my own eyes.
A hug
Malena
ps: imagine how intense and interesting picture of me today ... the lyrics and I've changed!