If you are the vine...

If you are the vine, you will love cold winters because that's when you can hibernate and charge up your strength for the coming year's fruit. If you are the vine, you will love the mixture of some rain in the midst of the warm summer because that's when the fruit ripens gradually and evenly. If you are the vine, you will fall in love also with the dry autumn when harvesting takes place as the dryness will help keep the flavour of the grapes. Trust not the humid weather at this point in time as it will result in dilution of the juice.

Apart from the seasons of the nature, feel and indulge yourself, if you are the vine, in the heavenly balance of temperture that God so beautifully created between the 30 and 50 degrees latitude in each hemisphere. Let your texture be enhanced as you soak yourself in the soil and the love of human hands.

Ah~~yes the human hands. With the advancement of technology, machine harvesters is no longer a foreigner in the territory of the vineyard. Many use it today for its efficiency and ease. But let it not deprive us of our beauty. Let it not destroy us with all the shaking done by the machine. And if you are the vine, you will be most happy to know that hand picking is still done across the globe. Despite the back-breaking hard work and great amount of time consumption, no one knows us better then our very own "parents" who cultivate us. Thus although the process of picking grapes is tough but it is definitely all worthwhile. As hand-picked grapes tend to produce less damaged grapes then machine harvested grapes, this helps to retain our beauty and texture. Additionally, sub-standard grapes can also be left behind to ensure the top quality of the delicious wine that will be served to our admirers.

Hmm...are you now in the midst of the vineyard enjoying the warmth of the evening light as i close off this indulgence of the day? Enjoy~~because if you are the vine you will love the evening light!

*Do stay tune as i learn and share my very own humble style to the lovely you!
P.S. Knowledge has been inherited from
-"The Joy of Wine" by Jane Hughes