Bastión de la Luna

Apparently, 18 months have passed since I last mentioned the Moon here on Rawls & Me so, with this busy week of teaching and travelling finally over, I felt like it deserved a post. Even if the Moon may hold the key to some of the sustainability challenges that we face, and I still have a lot of pent-up frustration after yesterday’s conference, I desperately need to turn a page.

And, hailing from Salnés, about 60 kilometres south of Santiago de Compostela, this lovely Albariño was precisely what I needed to do that. As discussed at length in Scruton’s “I Drink Therefore I Am”, wine does something to your thinking, smoothing the edges, and making you see the basic existential truth, what the old confession calls “confitemur partem nos habere in aversione mundi a te”: that we all have our share in the world’s turning away from God.