Here are some of my favourite wine songs. I’m leaving out a number of that necessarily have fun ingesting for ingesting’s sake — they may as smartly be about beer or tequila. And I might be offering a special list a 12 months from now, relying on my temper. In a couple of of those, wine makes just a cameo look, however the songs constitute the techniques wine suits into our lives. My two favorites in this list are the remaining and the first.
Wine as Obsession. Anyone in the wine occupation or who has stuck the malicious program and spends an inordinate quantity of money and time researching and exploring wine can relate to the sheer pleasure of “Gimme That Wine,” by means of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.
“Now some folks like money, some like to dance and dine, but I’ll be happy if you gimme that wine! (Unhand that bottle!)”
Oenogeeks know the significance of having a beneficiant patron, an older wine collector desperate to proportion wisdom of the global’s greatest wines as a result of the classics are exhausting to come back by means of this present day. “Tasting History,” by means of Al Stewart, from his 2000 assortment of wine-themed songs, referred to as “Down in the Cellar,” expresses the awe of a budding wine geek — in truth the boyfriend of the collector’s daughter, who hangs round after the lady has left the scene so he can be informed extra about wine.
“And all through the night in glass-filtered light, tasting history.”
Wine as Romance. Wine is liquid love, and Melody Gardot captures that feeling in her ballad, “From Paris With Love,” reflecting the fable of younger fanatics who “fall in love like falling out of bed” in the maximum romantic town on Earth. Simple moments spent people-watching in a restaurant create a life-time of reminiscences.
“Half a silhouette of passersby, have a glass within my hand. Drink to life as if there is no end.”
Romance settles in for Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors in “The Wine We Drink,” the place the mundane photographs of day-to-day lifestyles constitute bonds of love.
“It’s in the wine we drink, dirty dishes in the kitchen sink, and the lights go out til the sun comes up; we are not alone. It’s in the miles we drive, never having to say goodbye, to the things we tell each other without saying a word. You are the one thing that I know.”
Wine as Metaphor. Wine’s metaphorical use extends again to Biblical instances; at the Last Supper, it represents the blood of Christ and everlasting lifestyles. In Deana Carter’s “Strawberry Wine,” it symbolizes the first blush of maturity. Enough stated, pay attention for your self.
Alas, the path of real love by no means did run clean. Joni Mitchell captured that sense of futility in “A Case of You,” the place she sings about a misplaced love ingrained in her very soul.
“Oh, you’re in my blood like holy wine, you taste so bitter and so sweet. Oh, I could drink a case of you, darling, and I would still be on my feet.”
I believe that manner about some burgundies.
Wine as Solace. Sometimes we simply need to drown our sorrows. We know “Red Red Wine” by means of the reggae workforce UB40, however the authentic model by means of Neil Diamond presentations the sorrow of love misplaced with out the stoner facet. Sometimes we most effective want one drug.
“Only one thing makes me forget — red, red wine.”
“Little Ole Wine Drinker Me” has been recorded by means of many artists, together with Dean Martin, however I really like the nation twang of Merle Haggard’s model. And I crack up each time I pay attention to it, as a result of this deficient man who’s simply misplaced the love of his lifestyles is extra involved about the humans making the juice wherein he’ll drown his sorrows.
“I’m praying for rain in California, so the grapes will grow and they can make more wine. And I’m sitting in a honky in Chicago, with a broken heart and a woman on my mind.”
Wine for the End Times. In an technology of pandemic, local weather alternate and struggle, when the very cloth of society turns out about to render asunder, let’s cue up “French Fries and Champagne” by means of The Hot Sardines. The theme is “Let’s party before the asteroid hits,” as a result of there’s not anything we will be able to do to forestall the worst. I really like this music no longer most effective as a result of it sort of feels to suit our instances, but in addition as a result of the workforce has hit on the wine lover’s preferrred pairing of luxurious bubbles with salty convenience meals — suppose champagne and popcorn, potato chips and fried hen. It additionally features a line my mom would possibly have stated: “If woes were shiny nickels, we’d all be billionaires.” (Mrs. McIntyre’s model used to be, “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.”)
“Pinkies raised, we’ll toast the days coming to an end. My friend, it’s time for french fries and champagne.”
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