I’ve been enjoying this refreshing twist on summer wine using seasonal fruit. Inspired by a poem and my recent wedding.
I simply peel and cut up half a fresh peach and place it in a wine glass. Then top with a favorite chardonnay. If you let it sit 10 minutes or longer, the peach will begin to infuse the wine, especially the sweeter and riper the peach. By the end of the glass (or two) the peaches taste even better!
One of the poems read during our wedding is by Li-Young Lee, a favorite contemporary poet of mine. My aunt and wedding decorator extraordinaire painted an excerpt from this poem on brown paper bags of peaches scattered around the tables at our rehearsal dinner. Seeing that tiny detail is the first time my eyes watered during the official happenings. Here is the poem:
From Blossoms
From blossoms comes
this brown paper bag of peaches
we bought from the boy
at the bend in the road where we turned toward
signs painted Peaches.
From laden boughs, from hands,
from sweet fellowship in the bins,
comes nectar at the roadside, succulent
peaches we devour, dusty skin and all,
comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.
O, to take what we love inside,
to carry within us an orchard, to eat
not only the skin, but the shade,
not only the sugar, but the days, to hold
the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into
the round jubilance of peach.
There are days we live
as if death were nowhere
in the background; from joy
to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
from blossom to blossom to
impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.
montahj 