You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Unlike the fast-paced world of racing, there is nothing rushed about growing grapes. They take their time lazily basking in the summer sun, and come fall, as I watch them impatiently, waiting for that perfect balance needed to harvest, I swear they call out to me, 'What's the hurry?'
I love to pick tomatoes at the end of the day, when they're still warm from the sun.
Sometimes you've just got to grab an apple - or grapes, or strawberries. Something that's healthy but maybe a little bit more adventurous, if you can see fruit as adventurous.
I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.
Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
You can be drinking the wine today, but picking the grapes tomorrow.
When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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