“You mellow too much you ripen and rot”
Woody Allen
“There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them”
Joseph Roux
“This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.”
William Shakespeare
“All fruits do not ripen in one season.”
Laurie Junot
“Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The conditions are ideal. The grapes don't have to ripen as long, which makes the cool temperatures perfect for them.”
Andy Walker
“You don't want to pick grapes and have some of the earlier ripening mixed with the higher ripening, because you might get a blend of average. You want to pick all of them at their optimum maturity.”
Daniel Bosch