Strawberry Wine (Deana Carter song)

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“Strawberry Wine”
Single by Deana Carter
from the album Did I Shave My Legs for This?
Released 1996
Genre Country
Length 4:51
Label Capitol
Writer(s) Matraca Berg, Gary Harrison
Producer Chris Farren, Jimmy Bowen, John Guess
Deana Carter singles chronology
"Strawberry Wine"
(1996)
"We Danced Anyway"
(1996)

"Strawberry Wine" is a song written by Matraca Berg and Gary Harrison, first recorded by Deana Carter on the album Did I Shave My Legs for This? (1995). The song went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, was a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Country Song nominee, a 1997 Academy of Country Music Awards Best Country Song nominee, a 1997 Country Music Radio Awards nominee for Song of The Year, and the winner of Song of the Year at the Country Music Association Awards in 1997. It was also voted Song of the Year by the Nashville Songwriters Association International and the Nashville Music Awards that year.

The song, a ballad, 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. My aunt, who's six months younger than me, and I would try to score some wine. And I met this boy..."[1] Berg shopped the song to record labels around Nashville, but they passed, considering it overly long and controversial, and not memorable enough.[2] Deana Carter heard Berg perform the song at a showcase and then recorded it for her debut album, Did I Shave My Legs for This?.[2]

[edit] Chart performance

Chart (1996) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 65

[edit] References

Preceded by
"Lonely Too Long"
by Patty Loveless
Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
number one single by Deana Carter

November 23-November 30, 1996
Succeeded by
"Little Bitty"
by Alan Jackson