Domaine Darnat
20, rue des Forges
21190 Meursault
France
Summer


the broker,

Early in the morning, leaning on my tractor
I thought about my friends, drinking and singing in Bordeaux
while, between two showers, I was working hard
proclaiming high and loud: so much water!!
In the neighboring vineyard a being of light then appeared,
recognizing a well-known broker
with which I was having a sibiline discussion
about the quality of a grape harvested mature.
This man that all sellers of must listen to religiously
explained insistently that the 2006 wines
were harvested too late,
because at a high degree bets shouldn't be placed,
and bring back home quickly
the harvested grapes not even tasted.
When I told him about my dates of harvest,
and the two weeks that separated us from them,
he looked at me strangely, as if very busy,
stopping the conversation for when I invited him to taste my mature wines
was flabbergasted at wasting time to get there.
Just as the sheep of Panurge find their master
they go head first in the right direction
not even thinking or complaining
of the wine becoming oxidized or of being stupid!




Henri Darnat
Counter
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