![]() When I looked up after playing the song for him, he was grinning from ear to ear. This was the first single from the album. The wine, like the first love, is sweet and intoxicating, providing a valid metaphor for the song. ![]() The title is a reference to Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill, a very inexpensive and fruity wine that is popular with teenage girls getting their first sips of alcohol. ![]() I looked at the floor the whole time, because I was so nervous. This is a song about a girl's first love. Pat was having this tent showcase with label people and artists coming to listen to the new stuff that we’d all written. We really liked it, but we thought nobody else probably would. You're as sweet as strawberry wine You're as warm as a glass of brandy And honey, I stay stoned on your love all the time I've looked for love in all the same old places Found the bottom of a bottle's always dry But when you poured out your heart I didn't waste it 'Cause there's nothing like your love to get me high You're as smooth as. “We wrote it quickly, in about three or four hours. Lauren Alaina, Deana Carter and Ashley McBryde shared the stage during last month’s ACM Honors ceremony, honoring one of the evening’s awardees songwriter Matraca Berg with a medley of. ![]() I usually don’t come up with the words first I’ll have a title, and the music will tell me what it’s about.” The ‘Strawberry Wine’ Story & How It Almost Went To Trisha Yearwoodīerg also added that even though the hit became a timeless track, it only took moments to craft. I’m the kind of writer - I kind of need music to figure stuff out. Carters chart-topping, Grammy-nominated ballad debuted in August of 1996: detailing a teenage females first romance. When asked about crafting the coming-of-age song, Berg said, “I just wrote the title down, “Strawberry Wine,” because Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill - that’s what all the teenagers used to sneak off and drink and get sick on. Carter also received Grammy and ACM nominations for her work on the hit. ![]()
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