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Good Wine, Wrong Preposition

September 29, 2025

Whoever had the final say on the design of the bottle for the 2022 Cline Family Cellars Ancient Vines Zinfandel — which stood up nicely to the spicy and delicious Korean cuisine Tony made for us last week — likes words. Lots and lots of words.

I’m OK with almost all of the words, but I have a quibble with the “of” in this last sentence of text before the website URL: “In order to survive, the ancient vines pushed their roots deep into the sandy soil and reward us with a wine of intense depth, dark fruit flavor, and a plush velvet finish.” The “of” works fine with “intense depth,” but it doesn’t work with “dark fruit flavor” or “a plush velvet finish.”

Even though there’s already a “with” in the sentence, I think the “of” has to be changed to “with.” That preposition works with all three objects.

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