{"id":30894,"date":"2021-05-07T12:09:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T12:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originsorganicimports.com\/?p=30894"},"modified":"2021-05-07T12:09:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T12:09:49","slug":"gaia-the-primordial-earth-or-mother-goddess-you-can-drink-on-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/domainebousquet.com\/en\/gaia-the-primordial-earth-or-mother-goddess-you-can-drink-on-mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaia, the Primordial Earth or Mother Goddess, You Can Drink on Mother\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mother\u2019s Day: My mother has been gone for a long time now. I remember the day well. I had gone back to Maine, making that really difficult decision: Do I see her once more in life, or do I see her after she\u2019s gone? It was really that fragile. When I arrived, her exit party was waiting for her on the ceiling. My family knew about it when she asked them, \u201cWho are all of those people on the ceiling?\u201dWe all knew about cousin Paul. During his transition he asked, who are all of those people on the top of that building, pointing. His wife saw no-one. He was being pushed in his wheelchair, out for a bit of fresh air. This was just before he departed.\u00a0 So, this wasn\u2019t new for us\u2026<\/p>\n

Mom was in hospice and I headed to her room. When I showed up I said, \u201cHi, Mum!\u201d Surprised, she said, \u201cWell, you never know who you\u2019re going to meet.\u201d I was honored to be considered one of her angels, and smiled brightly. Maybe I was one of earthly angels\u2026 probably was. I stayed for as long as I could in Maine, and then had to returned to California. A couple of days later, she was gone. That day I thought to myself, \u201cthere\u2019s only one day in our lives when our mothers pass, and this is it.\u201d I took a deep sigh.<\/p>\n

My heart was aching and I went outside to get some flowers to soothe my crumpled soul. I couldn\u2019t see or call her anymore. One the edge of our property at the time, we had some gladiolas. One beautiful one was on the neighbor\u2019s border. Who knows who could claim it, but I felt entitled that day until my neighbor came out, as I was picking it. When I told him why, he just bowed his head. I\u2019m teary just writing this. She was a good mom and has been gone since June 2005, so I\u2019m better able to handle it.<\/p>\n

Today, it\u2019s now my children who honor me.<\/p>\n

And, this year I\u2019ve ALSO been honored by the Bousquet family<\/h2>\n
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The lovely Bousquet family hails from the city of Carcassonne<\/a>, in the South of France. They have four generations of history in the winemaking tradition. Their passion is to produce wines of superior quality. And, this is what lead them to Argentina, to begin their new chapter.<\/p>\n

I met Anne Bousquet (CEO and Co-founder\/Partner of Domaine Bousquet<\/a>) a few years ago. She shared her story with me.<\/p>\n

Prior to joining Domaine Jean Bousquet in 2008, she worked as an economist. She began by performing forecast analysis, for the European paper packaging industry. As she tells it, she then \u201cjoined the [family] company to assist in financial planning, day-to-day operations management, and business development.\u201d She\u2019s a brilliant young woman who has her Master\u2019s Degree in Applied Economics, from Saint Cloud State University, in Minnesota; and, earned her Bachelor Degree in Economics, from the University of Toulouse, France.<\/p>\n

Anne\u2019s extremely well rounded, and has the great ability to manage her family\u2019s company. Many successful companies I\u2019ve worked with have this important component. Art and science are fabulous in winemaking, but then knowing how to manage the farm-stand locks in the longevity success. It isn\u2019t in every generation of winemaking that a family has this kind of insight. European influences seem to really lock into this one, due to their extensive generations of being into winemaking and knowing how it successfully works.<\/p>\n

A #Sample bottle of their newly released 2020 Gaia Pinot Noir Ros\u00e9 was sent to me, for my review. Already familiar with their Gaia Wines, I was very excited to see where this one sits in their portfolio, on their delicioso scale, and it\u2019s right at the top. They just make fabulous wines and it\u2019s such a treat to taste, evaluate, and then enjoy until the last drop in the bottle has gone into my glass.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

My notes:<\/p>\n

The debut-vintage of Gaia Rose 2020, New from Domaine Bousquet. This one is made from 100 percent organically grown, Pinot Noir grapes. Since Ros\u00e9 wines have become super popular, any mom \u2013 including me \u2013 will love this wine. I\u2019m talking Mother\u2019s Day people.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like bringing flowers to Mom, and she might even share it with you! Then, you can both smell it\u2019s delicious bouquet!
\nIt has a beautiful peach\/ros\u00e9 color. The aromatics are also of a peach\/ros\u00e9. But\u2026 WOW, flavors of strawberry compote. I felt it would have residual sugar at first on my palate, but I was so wrong. It\u2019s pleasantly quite dry, which will let me enjoy it with foods that have a bit of sweetness, for a total taste explosion.
\nThe vineyards for this wine are grown in a high altitude of the Uco Valley region, of Mendoza Argentina.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got time to find it for this Sunday. It\u2019s one of the most beautiful bottles out there. Should be easy to find. Happy Mother\u2019s Day to all mothers! I\u2019m toasting to my dearly departed! Cheers!<\/p>\n

And, my #mothersday weekend has officially begun.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking for something for mom, the artwork has mom right on the label!<\/p>\n

FROM: Gaia \u2013 Greek Mythology<\/a><\/p>\n

In Greek mythology, Gaea (or Gaia), the primordial earth or mother goddess was one of the deities who governed the universe before the Titans existed. In the creation myth, Chaos came before everything else. He was made of Void, Mass and Darkness in confusion; and then earth in the form of Gaea came into existence. From \u201cMother Earth\u201d sprang the starry heavens, in the shape of the sky God Uranus, and from Gaea also came the mountains, plains, seas and rivers that make up the Earth we know today.<\/p>\n

Gaea first appears as a character of divine being in the Homeric poems, in the Illiad, black sheep were sacrificed to her, and people were declaring oaths to invoke her.<\/p>\n

Drink up, buttercup\u2026 It\u2019s Mother\u2019s Day weekend.<\/p>\n

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Source: https:\/\/www.wine-blog.org<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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