The Miracle of Wine

Wine itself is quite a miracle. It's something like the birth of a child. A man and woman mix and then create a being wholly distinct from themselves, yet with deep family traits--new and yet the same. A ripe grape contains two parts, unmarried--an interior sugar juice and an exterior skin full of yeast. But if you marry and mix these parts by crushing a grape, it will start toward creating wine, a third distinct thing, new and yet the same--a "wine that maketh glad the heart of man" (Ps. 104:15).

Doug Jones, Angels in the Architecture, 83