DIONYSUS, Greek God of the Vine. He is "…the soul of the whole species, the spirit of fire and dew, alive and leaping in a thousand vines, as the higher intelligence, brooding more deeply over things, pursues, in thought, the generation of sweetness and strength in the veins of the tree, the transformation of water into wine, little by little; noting all the influences upon it of the heaven above and the earth beneath; and shadowing forth, in each pause of the process, an intervening person - what is to us but the secret chemistry of naive being to them the mediation of living spits. So they passed on to think of Dionysus (naming him at last torn the brightness of the sky and the moisture of the earth) not merely as the soul of the vine, but of all that life in flowing things of witch the vine is the symbol, because its most emphatic example.’ (Walter Pater, 1876.) Wystan Curnow, from TALES OF GOLD AS GOOD AS GOLD was named by artist, Billy Apple, who also designed the label and packaging.