"Vintage"
[August 2006 prompt :: wine]
Considering I spent the bulk of my considerable lifetime in France, I've never once had the urge to be a vintner. Oh, Robert had the urge once or twice, but it never went anywhere. Thankfully, Duncan or Fitz talked him out of it. My Robert just doesn't have the patience to wait for the vines to mature enough to get a proper harvest, nor for the actual bottling of the vintage.
And so instead, we have shares in a few wineries. If only to get some good wine for our cellars. Of course, the modern vintages have nothing on the older bottles we've collected over the years. There are bottles in our cellar from vintages that are believed to no longer exist. And we choose to keep that belief intact. If we should ever have need of money, we can always bring out those bottles.
Not that we'll ever be that desperate for financial security.
Considering I spent the bulk of my considerable lifetime in France, I've never once had the urge to be a vintner. Oh, Robert had the urge once or twice, but it never went anywhere. Thankfully, Duncan or Fitz talked him out of it. My Robert just doesn't have the patience to wait for the vines to mature enough to get a proper harvest, nor for the actual bottling of the vintage.
And so instead, we have shares in a few wineries. If only to get some good wine for our cellars. Of course, the modern vintages have nothing on the older bottles we've collected over the years. There are bottles in our cellar from vintages that are believed to no longer exist. And we choose to keep that belief intact. If we should ever have need of money, we can always bring out those bottles.
Not that we'll ever be that desperate for financial security.