In the terroir is the earth, postgraduates. And you know what Cicero thought of the earth! A fundamental Heideggerian term – always underestimated. There is earth and there is world, so Heidegger, Cicero said. And earth struggles with world. Earth tries to keep hidden, to stay dark. To turn away from the world’s light.
And the world, in turn, tries to expose the earth, to reveal its secret. Never understanding that earth will struggle against this revelation. Will fight to conceal itself and to keep itself in concealment. In forgetting. The earth doesn’t want to shown.
And this struggle between world and earth is the essence of Heidegger’s later philosophy. And it must be our philosophy, too – our wine philosophy.
The terroir is the earth, that’s what Cicero said. We need to drink what hides itself. In its hiddenness. What flees from the light. In its darkness. That’s there, in the wine. That’s what rises up through it. That’s what meets our lips.
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