December - holiday season. Time for food and wine.
 

Wine Wine Wine!
Life is too short to drink bad wine someone said.
And I totally agree.
We had a shipment of Uleybury wines arrive in Japan.
Jorg and I can seriously say that we think that they are the best wines in the world. 
The reds are rich in flavour and basket pressed and unfiltered so the full taste and flavour remains.  
It still is true that nothing can beat the quality of hand made items.

As I mentioned before, even building a house and with all the technology today, at the end of the day it still came down to several competent tradesmen working with their hands. Here too. Nothing can beat the hand picked & hand pressed wines created by a lovely Italian family in the Adelaide Hills.

Jorg & I just happenned to drive by the winery and we saw the sign that said "cellar door sales" so we stopped by. Maybe it was intuition, maybe it was sheer chance but after the first taste we were hooked. And we were also served by Natalie, the winemaker's daughter who was most delightful.

In an impersonal society today, I think it is important to be able to put a name and a face to something. Everything may be turning digital but we are definitely still flesh and blood. And within that composition of flesh and blood we have feelings and emotions that makes us what we are. And that is something that keeps us going.
Dance is a portrayal of this emotion through a immense flow of energy.
It is an exultation of life and what it means to be alive as we walk the path towards death - another portal to another dimension.
So....
Cheers! Kampai! To the end. To the beginning.
I shall savour each drop of life (and wine of course)! 

 
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