The showcase was held for representatives of music labels and artists to listen to the new works of Higdon’s writers. 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 memorable enough." Matraca first performed the song for her publisher Pat Higdon at a tent showcase. The song Strawberry Wine was shopped around the country music circuit for a period of time, and was passed upon by multiple artists, including Trisha Yearwood.
As the narrator remembers a summer spent on her grandparents farm, she nostalgically recalls herself as being naive and youthful in pursuit of experiencing love, metaphorically comparing her first love to strawberry wine, considered to be sweet and intoxicating, but ultimately bittersweet in aftertaste. The song was written in less than four hours. And I met this boy." The song references Boone’s Farm Strawberry Wine, an inexpensive and sweet wine favored by teenagers at the time according to Matraca.
My aunt, who's six months younger than me, and I would try to score some wine. The song tells the story of co-writer Berg's own coming of age as a teenager outside of Luck, Wisconsin, she recalled: "We used to go to my grandparents' dairy farm in the summer. It has a 6/8 time signature and the main chord pattern is D ♭-G ♭-D ♭-A ♭-D ♭. Carter originally performed this song in the key of D-flat major with a vocal range of A ♭3-D ♭5. As she grows older, she returns to this place, to find that everything has changed. The narrator describes a time in her youth when she lost her innocence, and compares her love to the sweetness of "strawberry wine". "Strawberry Wine" is a sentimental ballad, backed primarily with steel guitar and percussion. "Strawberry Wine" is Carter's most successful single overall, and is considered a signature song both for her and for songwriter Matraca Berg. The song also became Carter's first number 1 hit on both the US Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart and the Canadian RPM Country Tracks. It was released in August 1996 as Carter's debut single and the first from her debut album Did I Shave My Legs for This?. " Strawberry Wine" is a song written by Matraca Berg and Gary Harrison, and recorded by American country music artist Deana Carter.
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