The Grape Harvest

No harvest festival can be considered complete without its share of mind-altering refreshments. Of all the substances that, when ingested or otherwise absorbed, have the power to transform men into gods—in mind if not in body—there is none more universally appreciated than the fermented juice of the grape.

Wine, to our ancestors, was a sacred liquid transformed from its natural watery state by some mysterious process that could only be explained as divine. Even today, with the chemical threads unraveled and the biological processes explored, wine is still endowed with more mystical attributes than any other substance, mind-altering or not.