The discoverer of the Jefferson bottles, a German pop-band manager turned wine dealer called Hardy Rodenstock, would not say who had sold them to him, or even how many were in the cache.

And then one evening at sunset, Delno showed up at Raley’s cabin, bringing with him two Mason jars filled with a murky liquid that he’d fermented himself.

According to Bowdoin College psychologist Barbara Held, PhD, for those with a glass-half-empty view of the world, all this happy talk can be downright depressing.