Meg Bernhard is a writer from southern California’s Inland Empire. She has reported from around Europe and the United States for the Los Angeles Times, Hazlitt, the New Yorker, Guernica, and Harper’s, among others, and occasionally writes about wine.
My first year in Europe, I moved when the seasons changed. I spent autumn in Castilla-La Mancha, winter in Barcelona, spring at the foot of the Pyrenees. I had moved to Spain to apprentice with winemakers, and I was following the cycle of a...