Potential. A humble grape, with its meaty flesh sealed tight by a waxy skin, waits. This cluster, in mid-winter, missed the harvest. Missed the chance to be pressed and bottled into fine wine. Missed the chance to be sniffed and swirled and boasted over. Instead, the cluster remained clinging to the vine. Instead, it waited…
Tag: grapes
Wine Wednesday: Sept. 9, 2015
“Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire.” –Freya Stark (explorer, travel writer, nomad)