Strawberry Wine (Deana Carter song)

"Strawberry Wine" is a song written by Matraca Berg and Gary Harrison, and recorded by American country music artist Deana Carter.

"Strawberry Wine" is Carter's most successful single overall, and is considered a signature song both for her and for songwriter Matraca Berg.

As the narrator remembers a summer spent on her grandparents' farm, she nostalgically recalls herself as being naïve and youthful in pursuit of love.

And I met this boy..."[6] The title refers to Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill, a wine cooler popular with teenagers at the time.

[6] Berg shopped the song to record labels around Nashville, but consensus mistakenly considered it overly long, controversial due to its reference to a teenage girl losing her virginity, and "not catchy enough.

[7] Carter acquired the song and recorded it for the US version of her debut album, Did I Shave My Legs for This?, which had been delayed at the same time that "Strawberry Wine" was being turned down by other singers.

In the music video, scenes vary between Carter singing in the present day and flashbacks featuring the song's narrator, her love interest, and her grandparents.

The young couple are first seen resting on the porch of the mansion, in a nearby tree swing, driving down a rural country road (actually the adjacent Fairgrounds Road) in a 1971 rally sport Chevrolet Camaro, and sitting on the railroad tracks at a CSX Railroad train yard, located one mile south of Old Oaks Farm.

The song's bridge depicts the narrator imagining herself returning to the farm in her middle-aged years while at the rope swing and on the rural road.

Autographed Photo of Deanna Carter at Old Oaks Farm from the filming of the music video Strawberry Wine