…Wine has an
animal life. Wine suffers a heaving birth. It has a rough, groping childhood.
It develops into adolescence. Then, if it does not sicken, it matures; and in
this it is almost human since it does not mature according to a fixed rule but
according to the law of its particular and individual personality. The act that
gives it personality is the act of fermentation. In this metamorphosis it is
changed from fruit into animal; sometimes even into an animal of splendor.
William Younger
Gods, Men and Wine
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