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Spring is taking its time.  This sentiment underlines the fact that spring doesn’t just spring at the equinox, but spreads slowly from south to north, a few miles a day, like returning birds.  The same principle applies to recovery, to relationships, and even to justice, which makes Euthermia a flexible metaphor. The Appalachian equinox is still the northern winter in all but word.  Only now are…

Imagine receiving a wooden box in the mail, stamped with a branding iron, with letters stained in wine.  Inside the box, a bottle and a tape, nestled in soft sponges that look like burnt orange coral.  The contents build a bridge across the seasons: music to soothe the mind, an apéritif wine to relax the body.  The leaves are only beginning to turn, an occasional early victim falling from the…

One of our favorite labels has returned from a brief hiatus just in time for the changing of the seasons!  As a refresher, on every Solstice Day, the aptly-titled Ceremony of Seasons pairs a new wine with a new album as part of their ongoing partnership with VISUALS Wine and the Ritual of Senses Wine Club.  The artists all hail from Asheville, North Carolina’s rich music scene, and for the first…

We are living in the last hours of summer; autumn will begin overnight.  To some, the solstice brings a welcome transition; to others, a loss.  Phil Cassella’s evocative cover photo portrays the dimmed light, a puddled path, umber leaves clinging to nearly-bare trees.  This change is coming and cannot be avoided.  Yet there in the distance, a bridge that looks like a door, or perhaps it is a…

As another season begins, we open a new bottle of wine and place a new record on the turntable.  The music lands alongside the scent: electronic tones, pulsing and pure; cinnamon and plum, with a light undercurrent of pepper.  The sensual combination is completed by the colors: moss green vinyl and deep burgundy Pinot Noir, the latest pairing from Asheville, North Carolina’s Ceremony of Seasons…

The spring equinox will arrive today at 5:24 p.m. in Asheville, North Carolina, and to mark the occasion, another VISUALS wine will be released along with a new album in the Ceremony of Seasons series.  These pairings have given us a new reason to look forward to every seasonal equinox. This article is being written during the last week of a mild winter, albeit at the beginning of a late season…