In À nos ivresses: Chaque verre est une première fois, Alicia Dorey explores our intimate relationship with intoxication, between the quest for freedom and existential vertigo. Winner of the Prix Livres en Vignes du Clos de Vougeot 2023, this sensitive essay celebrates the art of drinking as an art of living, oscillating between lucidity and surrender. A deep and poetic text about what, in each of us, seeks the sparkle of wine and the warmth of sharing.
There exists, at the heart of each of us, a mysterious attraction to intoxication. This luminous flaw that sometimes opens the path to adventure offers to love a singular sparkle, and at the time a new flavor.
In To our intoxications: Each glass is a first time, , Alicia Dorey, journalist for a major national daily and taster of great vintages and spirits, questions this complex link between alcohol, , pleasure and society.
Through sensitive and introspective writing, she leads us to the heart of this Ambivalence : that of the desire to surrender in the face of lucidity, the need for celebration in the face of the fear of emptiness. TheDrunkenness becomes here a material for stories, "a" Metaphor of the living, "a" window open to our humanity.
In a world where we too often oppose Radical sobriety and excess, Alicia Dorey refuses injunctions and simplifications. She claims the right to nuance, to Conscious moderation, to the celebration of those suspended moments where wine, music, or words create a space of authenticity.
Awarded by the Prix Livres en Vignes du Clos de Vougeot 2023, sponsored by the Brotherhood of the Knights of Tastevin, this work stands out as a ode to freedom, "a" Meditation on Pleasure and Measure, and a Contemporary reflection on our relationship with alcohol in a world in search of meaning.
With elegance and sincerity, Alicia Dorey invites us to rediscover wine not just as a simple beverage, but as a symbol of sharing, memory, and emotion. Each glass becomes a promise, each sip a first time.
One essential book for those who believe that Wine speaks about us as much as we speak about wine..
Title: To our intoxications: Each glass is a first time
Author: Alicia Dorey
Editor: Flammarion
Collection: Documents - Testimonials
Publication date: March 29, 2023
Language: French
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-2-08-041317-8
EAN13: 9782080413178
Number of pages: 192
Dimensions: 21 x 13.7 x 1.7 cm
Weight: 248 g
Distinction: Prix Livres en Vignes du Clos de Vougeot 2023 (Confraternity of the Knights of Tastevin)
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