I am truly disgusted, and I’m trying to make sense of what is happening. Perhaps the seriousness of a ‘differently human’ act is inversely proportional to the value of the product and the land? If it happens with tomatoes in Foggia it’s serious, but if it happens in a vineyard, it’s not?
I’ve been waiting for days for an article, a reaction from the wine world, from producers, from the specialized press, but all I see are small traces of generic information (…is it just my impression?)
‘It’s the cooperatives’ fault.’
Oh really—on land worth millions of euros per hectare, am I supposed to believe everything is left in the hands of a cooperative…?
‘…it’s an isolated case.’
Then isolate these people—name names.
We know what happened, we know more or less where, but we don’t know whose property it is. Maximum silence to protect a ‘precious’ product, I would say. Instead of distancing themselves from those who allow space for certain people, they choose to keep their heads down.
Between an event, a tasting, a masterclass and a press tour, between a story and a post, the beatings find no place, and the answers are nowhere to be found.
I hope that one day I will know who the producers are. I hope so, so I can ban their wines from my glasses, my articles, my posts.
And maybe they’ll even write on their labels that they’re organic and sustainable…
