Fernanda Zattera In Her Own Winery Late June 2012 With Ruy, Laurent, Frederico & Anthony

There are just some pictures that stop me in my tracks, and this one below is one of them. There's a beauty, a calm, a tranquility, a angelic quality to Fernanda's expression here that I caught which I think was completely natural as I do not believe that she was aware that I was taking it with my Lumix Panasonic DMC-LX5 camera at the time. Sure, she was aware that I had my camera and that I was taking many photos but at this moment I think she was oblivious to that and I love the tranquility and the natural beauty of her expression. She looks timeless / ageless and that's striking in such a profound way that really has no measure and no limits. I love the picture for that : I think it will always speak to me, I think I will always be drawn to it as I am to several others that I took around this same time. Some of those are included here with all the others.


 


I was transfixed, I was transported, I was pleased, teased, amazed and driven to continue snapping away at all these pictures that I took while at the VINICOLA FERDINANDO ZATTERA home and winery outside of the wine town of Caxias Do Sul tasting Fernanda's and Ruy's ( her husband ) wines for the first time that were made by her sister. I loved their gentleness, their smiles, their warmth and their hospitality. The genuinely wanted to please us, for us to feel at home with them. They were very attentive to us. It was all sincere and quite endearing and I immediately warmed to the two of them, and to their small son when we met him later.



 



I am typing quickly now because I want to post this first draft of this while it is still 12/12/12. Don't ask me why?!? I do not know, I cannot explain it but I would like to post it in the next eight minutes just for the fun of it! I will add to it tomorrow when it is 12/12/12 and that will seem fitting. It was a beautiful day here in one of the centers of Brazil's wine country and I was being caught-up in the majesty of the place, the people and the wines. I did not know what to expect here at the ZATTERA home but I must say it was one of the most special moments for me in the whole 10-day trip that I enjoyed very much on my return to Brazil having left it as a young child of eight back in 1962 or 1963 when my father Harry Alan Quinn was re-assigned to Washington D.C. being in the State Department and working for the American Embassy in Rio DE Janeiro and then in Brazilia when it became the capitol.



 



I got some really interesting images of Fernanda through my wine glass and through the green wine bottles, too. I loved discovering both the red Bordo grape and the white Niagara grape. I liked everything that I tasted but these two intrigued me along with the French southwest white grape variety the Gros Manseng.



 


This whole wine-tasting was a big discovery for me! Obregado Fernanda e Rut! Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn


 

     Great book, enjoyed reading it in Portuguese in 2012 on my return from Brazil there in late Junw 2012!  TONY   Obregado  Fernanda, Ruis!