A first public preview from a work in progress— with Grégory Brun

Wine once ordered time, carried memory, and shaped shared life through work, ritual, and the table. Today it circulates largely as image, category, and signal. The Wine Covenant begins with a process of deconstruction, exposing consoling narratives about sustainability, authenticity, and virtue that often function as reassurance while obscuring deeper realities of land, labor, and meaning.

During this book preview evening, we will also turn to the concept of terroir as a charged intersection of place, history, and symbolic inheritance. Religious memory, sacramental imagination, and archetypal patterns continue to inform how wine is perceived and valued, whether explicitly named or not. These layers remain present in the glass, shaping reverence, belonging, and desire beneath contemporary forms of presentation.