I just stopped at this picture to see what I had captured and the more I looked the more I saw. I'm pleased with the light, the reflection off the glass , the small amount of red wine still in the glass at the bottom of it and coating the sides, the glare, the bit of green behind it ( what it is exactly? I also like the machine in the picture : what does it do exactly at the winery? The white of the wall is nice for a backdrop/background. Was I at MORESON winery here? I can't remember exactly but I think I was.
I think I took it as we walked around from the office to the cellars to the tasting room on this beautiful afternoon of wine-tasting/appreciation : discovery of a whole new place, new people, new setting, new language with Africans. I was completely in my element and snapping pictures like mad and trying to capture as much as possible because I knew that there was a whole lot that I was experiencing and yet could not focus on because it was constantly changing, evolving, appearing-disappearing - never to be quite the same - never to be " the moment " I had then and there with whoever and whatever just happened to be then and there like me at just those particular instances - flukes, chances, incalculable, spontaneous, combustible and engagingly undescribable and intoxicating and that pulled me in and towards them whether under the influence or not of wine because they were so appealing and intriguing on their very own - and ALL so new to me then.
The little bit of red at the bottom of this glass is still fermenting grape juice of : Petit Verdot/ Merlot/ Cabernet Sauvignon / Cabernet Franc / Shiraz / Malbec : which one ? I don't remember. I'd like to think though that it was either the Petit Verdot or the Malbec as I was happy to discover both there, especially the Petit Verdot that I think that Clayton at MORESON should bottle as well as Curly at HILLCREST and Rolf at BLAAUWKLIPPEN.
I looked at the picture just now again. What I wrote above was from remembering this photograph. Now on looking at it again I see the clump of green leaves on the ground that is really nice. What kind of flowers did they provide earlier in the summer? I also like the triangle of sunshine on the glass and the sun on my hand as well as the green plaque. And for the life of me I cannot recollect what the patch of green is through the glass - maddening!
The reflections off the glass are amazing . You can see the red curve of the fermenting grape juice at the top of the glass at the rim where it gathered and could go no further because my lips had earlier been there to taste it. I like that : my hand holding this beautiful glass that had herd already so much liquid pleasure for me ( and with the promise still of more to come ) and the mark where my lips had just been and soon would be somewhere close there again.
Nothing like time off to saturate oneself in one's place and time, exact moment and joy and sense hopefully of awe and bewonderment.
And saving one of the most important aspects for last : the ground from which all this sprung and which was fundamental for any of all of this to be : the brown earth and rocks just below the glass.
Oh, sometimes all it takes is one picture ... South Africa and it's wine country sometime around March 19th, 2009 I believe with my excellent guide and host John Morrison from South Africa himself who is so proud of all of this and knows it because he lives and breathes it daily ( even though he is living now in the U'S. ) : and shared it freely with me on this trip and always lamented what we did not have more time for more of it as there was so much.
Thanks John and all of you there that made this so rich for me.
Cheers, hope you like this picture and it's subtlety/richness. TONY
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