The rose and the wine

In Mediterranean countries, tradition dictates that a rose is placed next to the drinking glass, a delicate gesture that associates the beauty of the rose with the beauty of wine, both being the products of a perfect harmony between nature and art. The vine and the wine awaken so many beautiful images and intense poetic yearnings, have inspired so much joy in writing, lend themselves to so many artistic variations, bring together so many tastes and scents, embrace so many styles, nourish so many imaginations, and carry so many symbols that one must indeed speak of art and beauty regarding them. Aesthetics then becomes an irresistible temptation: aesthetics of landscapes and vineyard work, aesthetics of wine regions, aesthetics of birth and maturation, aesthetics of tasting, aesthetics of representation...