RIPE TIME FOR FRUIT WINE (San Francisco Chronicle) Close your

July 20, 2007 Vino

RIPE TIME FOR FRUIT WINE (San Francisco Chronicle)
Close your eyes and picture the landscape of wine country: gangly persimmon trees pushing orange fruit to the sky; fluffy blackberry bushes squatting by a fence; tufted mango groves topped with bristly heads of long, pointy leaves. You imagined…

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