| The title "Summer Wine" brings a famous song to | | | | but most important of all they carry the unique |
| one's memory; sung by Nancy Sinatra and Lee | | | | flavor of sunny days. |
| Hazlewood, it also inspired and stirred the | | | | Cherries and strawberries have always been |
| creativity of other great musicians in time. Here | | | | included in certain recipes to make "summer |
| we refer to the famous U2 member, Bono, to a | | | | wine", most often this type of beverage is very |
| band such as the Corrs as well as to orchestras | | | | similar to a normal soft drink one has in order to |
| all over the world. The lyrics are inspiring and | | | | cool down or to make the heat of a summer day |
| definitely touch one's soul. What is "Summer Wine" | | | | more bearable. However, there is enough alcohol |
| actually expressing? | | | | in the summer wine to make one get dizzy and |
| Summer wine is made of a mixture of cherries | | | | lose control over the senses. This is actually how |
| and strawberries, but the magic ingredient of the | | | | the story goes in the song too. |
| liquor is the angel's kiss that charms and puts the | | | | The lips can no longer speak, the eyes grow |
| drinker under the spell. The song starts with the | | | | heavy and the singer is totally won over under |
| "definition" of the summer wine, and these lyrics | | | | the "magic" of the summer wine. When he wakes |
| are repeated throughout the song as a recurring | | | | up in the morning the silver spurs are gone and so |
| motif or a refrain. One thing is for sure, there is a | | | | is the girl with the angel-like kisses. The memory |
| certain mood and a special way of perceiving the | | | | of the summer wine treat is only preserved in |
| summer wine as "mine". | | | | the headaches and the sickness that alcohol |
| The temptress who lures the singer with the | | | | leaves behind when one has too much of it. |
| summer wine is an anonymous "she" attracted by | | | | The overall feeling the song gives is one of idyllic |
| the jingles of the silver spurs that she wants for | | | | love: there is flirt, there is passion in kisses and |
| herself. In return for the precious things she | | | | the senses are stirred by the qualities of the |
| promises and actually gives summer wine. | | | | summer wine. Nevertheless at the other end of |
| Cherries and strawberries are not randomly | | | | the story, there lies the abrupt waking up when |
| chosen as the ingredients of wine: first of all they | | | | the magic is gone and the world is what it is: with |
| relate to summer by specificity to the season, | | | | morning hangovers and material interests. |