The spirit of wine: According to a Zen monk

Format: Hardcover, 160 pages 
Publication date: 1 March 2013 
Publisher: Tarma 
ISBN: 9782924157022 
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Here is an original book about wine and the relationship between man and wine... Like human beings, vines have a «before» and an «after». The character of wine is enhanced by the depth and richness of the terroir; by the soil, the exposure of the land, the sunshine, the wind, the seasons, and the proximity to the sea or mountains. Just as the terroir improves the grape, the wisdom acquired during life improves man. 
«We become better with age, better with others and with ourselves. It is not about being better than someone else or wanting to please. It is simply about being oneself. A child is as he is, and an old man is as he is. Throughout their life of maturation, the elderly try to preserve the child they once were while acquiring wisdom and understanding. Good wine is like this: as it ages, it retains its childlike spirit and indefinable freshness, as if, through time, the timeless had never left it. 
For thousands of years, monks and winegrowers have followed in each other's footsteps, simultaneously bringing forth the temporal from the eternal and making the eternal felt in the temporal, as an offering and an invitation to drink. The same is true of the transmission of Zen since the historical Buddha: during meditation, the 21st-century man sits in his own heart-mind, which is that of all Buddhas, patriarchs and masters, and in that heart he meets them all. 
What we taste with wine is the entire universe contained in a transparent and fragile glass.»