Much like Sloan's other Penumbraverse works, I feel like this hits better if you're familiar with aspects of it. As someone who makes wine from grapes in a vineyard just outside Santa Rosa grown from a suitcase clone from Italy, this hits....hilariously close. There's the usual dreamy just-left-of-normal setup, more exploration into "the starter", and thoughts on the nature of origins, but all in all, it's just fun.

Really 3.5, but that half star gets lost for the audiobook version, where the accents actually ended up detracting from everything for me.