Last week I mentioned that I had been to Bordeaux recently. Naturally the “Cite du vin” and the “Musee du Vin et du Negoce”, two museums covering history of wine and the wine trade were on our itinerary. Both were fascinating, the former in a contemporary building built to look like a wine decanter and the other in the cellars of an old merchant house.
It was whilst we were looking at the exhibits in the “Cite du vin” that I came across the bottle featured in the attached image. Being a good Methodist, it made me chuckle. The display was, in fact, about the different uses of wine and the paraphernalia around making wine, and also developments in the modern production of wine. This display item was of course about the production of 0% alcohol wine (an oxymoron in my opinion!), and as the museum caters for an international audience the words “sans / without / sin” of course all mean without. I read it at first as “without sin,” which of course to a teetotaller, 0% alcohol wine is exactly that!
We have travelled through Lent and reflected on the journey that Jesus took in those last days towards Jerusalem, culminating in the humiliation, degradation, and agonising death of the only one who was without sin.
Jesus took the punishment for our sins, and washed them clean with his blood, so that we might receive new life through him.
Yesterday we celebrated the empty tomb, the risen and living Lord. He is the one without sin, who offers us 100% full bodied, new life