“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.” – Galileo Galilei. Reading this quote for the first time in my early 20s, the charming depiction of wine did put a sassy spring in my step. It was not until years later (and my first mouthful of old vine Chenin Blanc savoured on a terracotta stoep of the smallest registered wine estate in South Africa) that the penny finally dropped and I grokked what Galilei meant when he uttered these wise words. At the Jacaranda Wine and
