Sustainable Writing...Improved

Posted 05/06/2008 at 09:54 AM by Dirk

It's here and it isn't easy. Only the most dedicated writers are practicing it. Of course, I am referring to the latest improvement in our industry: Biodynamic wine-writing.

Biodynamic wine-writing is far more involved and difficult than the more common or "standard" writing associated with the industrialized production of wine descriptions.

Biodynamic wine-writing shares obvious similarities with organic wine-writing. Both are sustainable and neither allows the use of man made scores. After all, a score such as "92" tells little. It is sterile. It leaves the reader's mind all the poorer in its inability to grasp and nurture the understanding of the essence or personality of a distinctive wine.

Biodynamic wine-writing ensures that the bio-rhythm of the earth and the lunar cycle are respected and properly focused through the written word. Through this approach the best ideas can grow organically and systemically on paper. Biodynamic wine-writing is essential to yielding the finest finished document possible.

Wine-writers have to be good stewards of their vocabulary and the greater language of wine. Experience and practice are critical in Biodynamic wine-writing as there are numerous preparations that must be attended to. They are as complicated as they are time specific in order to respect the timeless influence of the lunar cycle, the calendar and even the earth's own bio-rhythm.

There may be non-believers who don't understand the natural power of biodynamic writing. Perhaps they aren't insightful enough to recognize the obvious benefits of embracing the holistic existence of Biodynamic wine-writing but the results are compelling. Biodynamic wine-writing requires an understanding of nature, philosophy, and lunar cycles. Minute changes in gravitational pull can affect when the best writing can occur. Some "wet days" must be avoided so the resulting verbiage is not to end up dilute and of substandard quality. Other days, when the earth's energy is properly centered, can yield prose with undeniable depth and beauty.

Ultimately, it appears that biodynamic writing procedures are so powerful that even we must accept that grammar, structure, content and language take a back seat to the full biodynamic process in the creation of exceptional wine-writing.

While scientific examination of this specialty has failed to find measurable differences of any type as compared to well practiced organic writing, the reality is that more writers are resorting to biodynamic writing for the marketing advantages it brings to their articles. Some practitioners point to the fact that they have far more adverbs and that their adjectives have become full and rich where formerly they had been weak. They are equally adamant that their verbs have more vitality and are now vibrant and powerful.

The rising co

Cow horn preparation 500 ready to be stirred and scattered. Photo: Howard Sooley

mpetition to be practicing Biodynamic wine-writing is impossible to ignore. Some of their "preparations" are proprietary but leading wine writers continue to experiment with creating inks matched specifically to their papers and subjects. "I would never use the same ink to describe a great Napa Valley cabernet and a sensual dessert wine." explains a purist biodynamic wine-writer. He further states that, in his preparation, "The cabernet article needs an ink has been aged longer and can stand up to the extra power of the subject."

Like all biodynamic practitioners, his preparations are aged in a cow's horn. Even the age of the cow, where it grazed, and how it died are important to success. (The interviewed writer avoids the use of Hereford horns.) Equally protected is when, where, and how the horn is buried to gain its force from the earth.

"I found a magical place which balances the rhythm of the earth with the importance of lunar cycles," he quietly explained making sure no one could over hear us. "It came to me when I recognized a spot of particular importance. It was in full moon light at midnight of the equinox. Few spots have that kind of full convergence of nature's forces."

He further noted that he had to place the horn precisely 10 pi centimeters (33.31416cm) under ground at midnight of the full cycle of the moon. This required foresight and organization of the highest caliber in that he needed to know what sorts of wine-writing assignments would be covered over the next month. Otherwise, he could end up with the biodynamic formula for one assignment that had no relationship to the writing that presented itself.

All agree that biodynamic wine-writing may be difficult to adapt to the world of windows based word processing and mass market printing presses where technology can come between the earth and the reader, but the potential pay off of tapping into and aligning the energy of the earth and moon through the power of sustainably managed writing is too compelling to ignore.

((Written with a cow horn (which had been kept in a hermetically sealed mayonnaise jar on the back porch since noon yesterday) tucked under my chair. My watch tracks the lunar cycle - which is waxing (or waning) in Oakville at this very moment.))

 

E-Mail | Digg this! | del.icio.us
Dirty Talk on Wine RSS | Comments RSS for this post

 

Dirty Talk on Wine RSS