We have a very big sharp knife

The Poire William tasted so precisely of the fruit it was made from you could almost feel the sweetness and textured scrape of the coarse pear flesh dragging across your tongue, so that it was a surprise to find only liquid in your mouth. The Goutte de Reine Claude Doree Passerillee (greengage) also yielded an incredible clarity of flavour. 'We take all the stones out of the fruit by hand,' explained the producer when I commented on this. 'All 300,000 of them. We do everything by hand so as to avoid bitter or dirty tastes. The quince are the toughest to deal with because they are very hard, but we have a very big sharp knife.'

V. Moore, How to drink (2009), 200