I'm Levy Dalton and this is all drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the wine business. Oh, Prolific wine writer Alice Firing on the show today to tell us about her two books

and also her upcoming newsletter released The Firing Line.

Alice Firing on a show today.

Hi, I ask.

Hey, let me see you.

Let me ask you.

Go ahead.

I get often asked for a cogent definition. I don't know necessarily one to give. Seems like a big topic of

conversation quite often. I know you're an expert in the field. what is Morris dancing? For some reason, I didn't think that was what you're going to ask me.

But you are an interpretive dancer. I am a Morris dancer, a long time Morris

dancer, I am an expert in the field because I have been dancing in many fields over the years, Mars.

Morris dancing is a ritual dance that came out of, well, nobody really knows.

Perhaps the Moors of Spain, it migrated to England where it really had its glory days in Elizabethan

times when it became a pagan dance to make the crops grow and it was really fertility dance.

Oh, I didn't know that.

Yeah, yeah, so the way it got interpreted was that each village in the Cotswold and there are other kinds of

ritual dances in coal mining towns as well but in the Cotswalls was really

the central zone from ours dancing so each town would have the guys team and each town

would have their own separate variation on a theme and their own little quirk that

the village would do.

They would do it for carnations, but mostly for the crops and the spring,

and they would go and drink a lot of beer.

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