Wine collection

“A wine collection is a kind of extended family. Inanimate? Semi-animate would be a better description. You have housed the clan under the ground, in a cupboard, beneath the spare-room bed; they pass the days silently, motionlessly, locked up in a glassy purdah. Inside, of course, they are digesting time as a tree digests sunlight, moving imperceptibly toward an August of aroma and flavor.”
- Andrew Jefford