…it is always good to question the terminology of our enthusiasms.”

“…it is always good to question the terminology of our enthusiasms. We can say that wine is essentially female because it comes from the earth, and we don’t say ‘father earth.’ The best things are females, including females, and allowing such characterization energizes our imaginations in ways not possible with other terminology. Blatant, loud-mouthed, bad wines are, of course, male.”

—Jim Harrison (1937-2016), novelist