Cork Pop and the Bass Drop

By Paula Bandy Wine culture has long aligned itself with certain soundtracks. Jazz in the tasting room. Classical at the gala. Acoustic guitar on the patio during golden hour. These pairings feel natural because they reinforce a particular identity– wine as contemplative, refined, slightly elevated from everyday life. Something to be studied, appreciated, discussed quietly. Wine deserves that reverence. Karen Blixen, author of “Out of Africa,” published under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen, wrote that wine is “one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world.” Music shares that same duality– instinctive and refined, bodily and cultural, moving easily between the raw and the composed. But culture shifts. Music shifts. And wine culture must decide whether it shifts with it. PARALLEL SYSTEMS From an anthropological perspective, both music and wine are social instruments– tools to organize space, mark time,

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