Happy Monday...
What you see there is a common sight in this state of ours in autumn. Wood, and lots of it. In this case, two cords, which I realize some may scoff at, but that's what my in-laws decided the camp needed, so that's what they got. Believe, me, it was still quite a task, and given the end results, the suspicion is that we got more than two cords. Maybe that's just my lower back talking...
We got through it, because we did what so many of forget to do these days...we worked together. Three generations, each taking turns and tasks, my son carting log upon log down to the new framed stack by the basement door in the John Deere, my wife ferrying pieces to the shed, etc. Even my father in law's brother visiting from south of the ol' Masie Dixie was pressed into service. Greta, of course, supervised...from all the worst spots, usually underfoot.
So it was that two hours later, a cord an hour if you will, we have many, many stacks of firewood prepped for the first winter my in-laws will spend at the lake, with as many visits from the Mihan's as possible...after all, free ice rinks are the best ice rinks, and s'mores eaten from a fire pit surrounded by a white coat of winter just taste better. I wish you all luck in your stacking and prepping, for surely the cold weather doth approach. But that just means the hygge is not far behind!
Have a great week, everyone!
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Sean Thackery
Pleiades
Some of you in the Wine Club may remember having an incarnation of this wine awhile back. I say incarnation because this wine is very much that, an incarnation, different every time by design, and the man who designed it that way was himself different, coming at winemaking from the perspective of an artist, rather than a farmer.
This is not to suggest Sean Thackery, who we lost this year on May 30th, was not a serious winemaker. Indeed, there are few (I believe) that could speak as eloquently and yet so flippantly about wine, while still making industry-shaking product. I first encountered this wine, or should I say a much earlier incarnation of it, back in my Jersey days, brought into our shop by our hip young wine-buyer. It was like listening to Miles Davis for the first time, or his collaborator John McLaughlin...so much quality with this edge you couldn't quite explain. You understood the structure, you felt the skills, you enjoyed it...but you still couldn't safely write an essay on it.
Thackery famously rejected the notion of terroir, while still being quite expert at the soils his wines came from. His notions of winemaking are either odd or "duh!" obvious depending, I suppose, on who you are. He tried going to school for it, but didn't really care for the sterile thought processes of the halls of higher learning. He let his grapes rest overnight under the stars before pressing, informed by what he claimed are many ancient texts wherein that was commonplace. His Pleiades is a non-vintage, non grape-specific blend from an old vine plot that contains many unidentified varietals that likely will contain many familiar Rhone varietals, red and white, and likened to a "chef's special" by Sean, who claims if you trust the chef, you'll be in good hands and treated to a unique and rewarding experience.
As I said, Thackery passed away a few months back, and I'm led to believe this will be his last issuance of this groundbreaking wine. I bought all I could, and would love to share it with you.
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Sean Thackery Pleiades
W.O.W. Price: $27.89
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Bangor Wine And Cheese
86 Hammond Street,
Bangor, ME 04401
(207) 942 3338
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