Collection: European Wine Harvest Festivals

The wine harvest is the oldest festival of transformation: the grape becomes wine, summer becomes autumn, and the year turns again. No stone belongs to the table like amethyst — the Greeks named it amethystos, 'not drunk', the goblet stone of a clear head among the revels. Moss agate, the farmers' harvest amulet, keeps the season's promise of plenty; petrified wood and lapis lazuli are stones of rebirth; amber carries the tears of the Heliades, and the stones of ancient Rome and of Venus bring the old gods to the feast. For its beauty, its story, and whatever meaning you give it.