Wine Is Like A Woman

April, 1956

Wine Is Like a WomanAlmost every year some Frenchman falls into one of the big fermenting vats in the famous vineyards around Bordeaux.The accident is most likely to happen right after the grape harvest when the mashed fruit is fermenting and the grape sugar changes into alcohol and carbon dioxide. The gas that arises from the churning liquid is so heady that a workman or watchman looking into a vat may become giddy and plunge headlong into the seething mass. The accident has two very grave resu...