A Vintage

Pale straw colored

Delicate and subtle complexities

It is not about richness, or the

Exoticness associated with variety

It is about the intensity.

Harvest rains and lack of sunshine

Simply put, is heartbreaking

Yet, it is the brilliant

Growing season that produces

A week earlier then average.

Spring brings just enough rain

Keeping the vines healthy

Through the warm and dry summer.

Then, a bud break...

A vintage, a star is born.

Deborah Ann Tornillo

Copyright, 2013