Poetry Is Growing in Our Garden is the first volume in the series from a cult figure in natural winemaking, Anders Frederik Steen.
Anders started as a sommelier at Noma in his native Copenhagen before opening Relæ and Manfreds and before starting as a winemaker in southern France in 2013.
In the eight years since, Anders filled notebooks with ruminations on what it means to understand (and misunderstand) wine, taste and pair it, leaving the restaurant industry behind, where the balance lies between manual skill and abstract philosophy in a winemaker’s practice, and the technical minutiae of someone deep into his craft. These are his notes on wine-making and wine-drinking, but they’re also the doubts and deviations of any learning process and the work that goes into forming any kind of practice. Over the years they show someone exploring the far corners of a discipline in order to come back to the thing itself and eventually grow with it.
