Et in Arcadia ego

"...If summer means/

only time till fall,/

if time is lost

and wine won't help either.../

There's shadow in your heart!"

Wein, Weib und Gesang

It's fashionable to drink wine knowingly, as a cultural experience. Wine is also the subject of scientific seminars and study trips. It is fashionable to be a star, to have vineyards and specialists hired to develop them, it is fashionable to have wineries, designed by fashionable architects and which the publicity calls "new temples", "cathedrals" or "monuments" of wine. The fashion is for dry wines, at worst demisecified, at worst demisecified, the fashion is rosé. This thin word is called ghiurghiuliu in Romanian, from the Turkish gülgülü. Ghiurghiuliul is a kind of local Beaujolais, but not red. It is drunk with joy, as a young wine, elegant and expansive, a maker of emotions an