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Wiston Estate & The Trouble With Dreams
BY NEAL MARTIN | APRIL 01, 2021
There’s nothing that I want to do
More than get alone and be with you
Trouble with dreams is they don t come true
And when they do they can t catch up to you.
“Trouble With Dreams” – The Eels
I miss traveling. It’s not just that the Martin household has made it clear that the sooner their restless husband/father exits the house, the better. Peripatetic in nature, months into lockdown, and my unrequited wanderlust is ready to burst. “Travel” has been reduced to a daily commute down to my garden office, a 10-meter round-trip journey depending on whether I take the scenic route via the fig tree. Denied jaunts to Bordeaux and Chablis last summer, I suffered “VCT” – vineyard cold turkey. Lennon wrote a song about it. My doctor prescribed an aspirin and a couple of estate visits, and so last August I rang the doorbell of two of England’s most prominent wine producers. Following last year�