Cornaiano Winery

Day-colored wine,

night-colored wine,

wine with purple feet

or wine with topaz blood,

wine,

starry child

of earth,

wine, smooth

as a golden sword,

soft as lascivious velvet,

wine, spiral-seashelled

and full of wonder,

amorous,

marine;

never has one goblet contained you,

one song, one person,

you are choral, gregarious,

at the least, you must be shared.

Pablo Neruda, Ode to Wine

(trans. Margeret Sayers Peden)