This journey proposed by Pirotte leads us to the only continent that still deserves to be explored today, because it remains unknown: the one of man, and the debates that take place in his brain. The brain of a reader, a wine lover, a too refined spirit thrown into a vulgar world that saddens and suffocates it. What better escapes from all this than those promised by wine and literature? The former does not go without the latter, and the latter is only dry and dead without the former. To stroll through a cellar with Jean-Claude Pirotte is to go, in the company of the best possible guide and his incomparable voice, between books and barrels. A journey "by leaps and bounds" that Montaigne would probably not have shunned, since it deals with "human matter, friendship, and philosophy."