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And so this at-home trip ends and we all wait until we can travel physically,
not just in our souls and imaginations, again.
ENDNOTES
1. I have taken this snippet completely out of context, as
it sums up in another way the genius of trying the
unconventional, and that is a theme of this article. But
Lincoln’s address, called The Perpetuation of Our
Political Institutions, is timely in many ways, as it
presages much of what we have seen in the United
States over the past months, with mob violence
incited from the highest political office. As Lincoln,
fearing the Civil War to come, also said in that
speech:
I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is,
even now, something of ill-omen, amongst us. I
mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades
the country; the growing disposition to substitute
the wild and furious passions, in lieu of the
sober judgment of Courts; and the worse than savage
mobs, for the executive ministers of justice.
This disposition is awfully fearful in any community;
and that it now exists in ours, though grating
to our feelings to admit, it would be a violation of
truth, and an insult to our intelligence, to deny.
Accounts of outrages committed by mobs, form the
every-day news of the times ... Such are the effects
of mob law; and such as the scenes, becoming
more and more frequent in this land so lately
famed for love of law and order; and the stories of
which, have even now grown too familiar, to
attract any thing more, than an idle remark. … I
know the American People are much attached to
their Government; I know they would suffer much
for its sake; I know they would endure evils long
and patiently, before they would ever think of
exchanging it for another. Yet, notwithstanding all
this, if the laws be continually despised and disregarded,
if their rights to be secure in their persons
and property, are held by no better tenure than the
caprice of a mob, the alienation of their affections
from the Government is the natural consequence;
and to that, sooner or later, it must come … Upon
these let the proud fabric of freedom rest, as the
rock of its basis; and as truly as has been said of
the only greater institution, “the gates of hell shall
not prevail against it.”
2. Wine-Searcher, “Trebbiano (Ugni Blanc) Wine” (24
February 2020), online : <www.wine-searcher.com/
grape-502-trebbiano-ugni-blanc>.
3. Jancis Robinson, “Trebbiano”, online: <www.jancis
robinson.com/learn/grape-varieties/white/
trebbiano>.
4. Madeline Puckette, “Grüner Veltliner Wine – Taste
and Food Pairing Guide”, Wine Folly (11 July 2013,
updated 1 April 2020), online: <winefolly.com/
deep-dive/gruner-veltliner-wine-taste-to-food-
pairing/>.
5. “Grüner Veltliner”, Wikipedia, online: <en.wiki
pedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCner_Veltliner>.
6. Nane Steinhoff, “Top Ten Wines of the DACH
Region”, Discover Germany, online: <www.discover
germany.com/top-ten-wines-of-the-dach-region/>.
7. Ibid.
8. Oz Clarke, Oz Clarke’s Encyclopedia of Grapes
(New York: Harcourt Books, 2001) at 114.
9. Ibid.
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