Some songs take a while before I understand why I wrote them.

No Name started with a wine. Months later, I realized I had somehow written something about the path I was already taking.

The track was inspired by Borgogno No Name Langhe Nebbiolo, a wine I tasted earlier this year. The original idea was fairly simple: take what I was perceiving in the glass and see where those sensations went when translated into imagery and sound.

Blue Mountain’s Gravel Force Pinot Noir 2023 first caught me with its perfume: red cherry, lychee and potpourri over a concentrated, juicy core. Zephyr Through Stone came from that contrast, with fragrant wind revealing the structure underneath, then carrying the same idea into music. It is a taste that honours the land.

Born from Martin’s Lane Hyland Vineyard Riesling 2024, 空の羽 — Sora no Hane transforms an unexpected vintage into a song about becoming stronger through change. A cold snap altered the wine’s path; botrytis gave it greater depth. From that tension emerged the image of a white dove in an open sky—and a bilingual song in which hardship becomes wind, scars become light, and Ava claims her moment to fly.

Tasting usually begins with language: fruit, flowers, oak, acidity, tannin, texture and finish.

But what happens after the tasting note?

What happens when acidity begins to feel like movement, texture suggests material, or a finish creates distance and time? What happens when a wine leaves behind an image that sounds absurd when described literally, yet somehow feels precise when you return to the glass?

The VinoZen SenArch Selection 2026 brings together 12 such encounters: four whites, four reds and four spirits.

They are not necessarily the most expensive or highest-scoring bottles I tasted. They are here because each one opened a door.

A Sauvignon Blanc became a swan. Riesling became refracted crystal. Chardonnay became a leopard waiting at the water's edge. Balasto became monumental stone. Clos Apalta became an entire living civilization. Grappa became breath rising through bamboo. Hibiki became what remains after the final note has disappeared.

These are not tasting notes replaced by fantasy.

They are attempts to follow perception one step further.

Riesling Aria IV: Le Voleur de Temps explores the tension between aging and preservation. As Liesel grows older, Riesling seems to transform without losing the structural identity that defines it. What begins as an exploration of acidity, memory, and time gradually becomes something more human: love, resentment, sacrifice, and the fear of losing who we once were. This became one of the most emotional projects I have created, and I teared up countless times while developing the lore, the track, and the music video.

Slow down and experience deeply when you pay attention.

Slow down and experience deeply when you pay attention.