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.

oh love, doesn’t the fact that the world is so big,
laid out like ripe fruit
make you want to stay?

Over the next few days, it will stay rather cool.

There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe

Now, I see! He really kept his promise. He continued to love me, until my heart stopped beating. But, actually, it was his heart that stopped beating, stopped beating for me.

It's a really interesting and diverse business. You're a farmer first, then a winemaker, then you're onto marketing and distribution. So it's multi-faceted and really engaging. I've learned more in the last couple years than in the ten prior to that, so it's been pretty interesting.