Yesterday I watched a film. It wasn’t a very good film, but it made me cry. As a bloke, this is hugely embarrassing. But there was something about the film that stirred my emotions. <\/p>\n
What are emotions? What happens, physically, to cause tears to be released from the eyes? It’s all a bit odd, isn’t it \u2013 how our empathy allows us to feel another’s pain in such a way, even when it is portrayed badly in a film. <\/p>\n
But the real question of interest here is this: can wine stir our emotions in such a way as to elicit this sort of level of reaction? Can wine make you blub?<\/p>\n
On its own, I don’t think it can. For me, at least, the only time I have been really moved by a wine to the point of tears is with a profound wine coupled with a particular context, in which I was already a little emotionally vulnerable. My feeling is wine can make you cry if you are already softened up; if you have already been moved some distance along the emotional pathway before you taste the wine. <\/p>\n
On its own a wine can be so good as to be moving. But not really in a welling-up sort of way. This is just my perspective, and \u2013 let’s face it \u2013 I am male, and I’m British, so I’m probably not the most emotionally fluent sort of guy.<\/p>\n
I’d be interested to know of the experiences of others. What sort of emotions does wine stir in you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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