Art and wine have been linked for centuries as partners in celebrating the human needs to be creative and to find pleasure. But more recently, the term “appreciation” as applied to wine and art has changed from being one of veneration to one of realizing financial gains, as the two have journeyed hand in hand deeper into secondary markets that now threaten to overwhelm primary markets.
Every couple needs an origin story, and has there ever been a more Hollywood-style “meet cute” saga than that of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden? (Sadly, theirs wasn’t exactly a happy ending, however, so there go the film rights.) It might be amusing, then, to use this universal metaphor to consider another creative couple who have been intimately paired for millennia by poets, playwrights, and even critics—wine and art—and see how their origin story might adapt to their own garden.
We would begin by considering which one of our two was Adam and which was Eve. And where does the snake fit in? And which of the two companions took the first bite of the apple? And was the apple an erotic red, as it is historically depicted, or was it actually a lush green—as in cash? Finally, might it now be time to reexamine—and bring up to date—this enduring relationship between wine and art?
Much has been written about the eons-long creative coupling between the two—art and wine, wine and art—often in exalted terms. One reason is that both
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