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Contemporary wines
Nothing is more difficult to pin down than “contemporaneity” but often we fall in love with words and use them in the name of modernity and novelty. “We are suspended between the infinite and the infintesimal, between the past and the future and within these aspatial and timeless spaces the conscience of each one of us exists and lives.” This quote is from Guido Calogero, a 20th century philosopher of the self, and was in reference to some proponents of existentialism. It came to mind after I heard someone who writes about wine say that his field was “contemporary wines”, perhaps without knowing was a slippery slope this concept was. Nothing is more difficult to pin down than “contemporaneity”, nothing changes so...
