“Well, it’s all right anyway, Jim, long as you’re going to be rich again some time or other.”

“Yes; en I’s rich now, come to look at it. I owns mysef, en I’s wuth eight hund’d dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn’ want no mo’.”

Visiting Nashoba Valley Winery during apple-picking season is the closest that eastern Massachusetts gets to the wine tourism madness of Napa. There are too many tasters, not enough cashiers, and like a lot of stops on the California wine buses, the ratio of human density to wine quality is not favorable. But our vintner choices out here are limited: there’s the excellent sparkling wines of Westport Rivers (previously reviewed in Wine Sediments) and a few other wineries that are part of the Coastal Wine Trail in southeastern New England, but the only sizable winemaker within 50 miles of Boston is Nashoba Valley.

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