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From the Santa Cruz Mountains
WOODSIDE, Calif. — In strange ways nature seems to desire wine-making.
I passed this morning on a drive to the winery of a friend, whose affinity is for pinot noir—seen above, nearly as fresh as I witnessed them just several hours ago—and whose taste runs to small cloistral vineyards at high altitudes, on the spinal rails of land one finds in high, close hills which, next millennium, might be mountains. On the drive over: blue jays more plentiful than I have ever seen, little filtered glints of ten o’clock sun which improbably but consistently reached one’s eye level at the hue of natural honey, and afforded the suggestion of warmth while something like sixty-five degrees were maintained, for hour hours, by gently passing zephyrs. I hope, dear readers, this dispatch reaches you in like bliss.
“Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That’s all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. I lift the glass to my mouth, I look at you, and I sigh.”
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