The wine whose name was voted
most likely to roll off your tongue.

I like to practice saying the
name when I’m in the tub.

Why is it that the high ALC
wines seduce you more than
usual to DRINK MORE?

I DON’T KNOW.

Somehow, I made it home with
this fire breathing wine
from southeast Italy.

Holy Moly. This wine is WAY OFF TARGET.

The wine is fine. No problem.
I generally “like” MdA.

It’s just that the ALC content
is way up there; 14.5%.

I’m going to spontaneously combust.

I decided to have this
(I knew it would be relatively
full bodied, but this is
ridiculous) wine with Kielbasa
sausages that I intended to
“render” into submission.

Neither the wine nor the sausages
were palatable early on.

The sausages were too “gnarly”
and the wine was too “milky” and
“smokey”.

As time wore on, the sausages
gave up some fat and the wine
usurped my “critical thoughts”.

(I thought I was signing up for
a continuing education course to
study bugs but found out that I
had to learn about goofy words first.
I get extra credit if I use “u”
words that I have to look up in
the dictionary.)

That can be a deadly combination.
(Eating fat and drinking too much.
Not Entomology and Etymology.
Don’t be silly.)

I have a serious quantity of
“yard leaves” to deal with before
I “ascend”, so I’m cutting my lunch
short.

All things considered, I’d rather
be the entity being raked into the
gutter at this point if I could hang
onto the last few sausage bites and
sips of wine.

The good news is that I can
enjoy this decadent pleasure
again TOMORROW after I get
my sinuses steam cleaned.

But, but, but, what about
the wine.

Milky and smokey sensations
delivered on a flaming tongue.
Say no more.

Maybe tomorrow I can actually
TASTE SOMETHING in this wine AND
open a winning trade.

I don’t like being a…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf-AmedKfRc

Day Two…

I have no recollection.

(It’s not the wine’s fault.
My memory subscription expired.)

You can get educated here…

http://www.ausoniawines.com/en/product/apollo-montepulciano-dabruzzo-d-o-p-spontaneous-fermentation/

Try not to fall in love.

Hang in there.

Observation…

If you click on the “DIARY” menu option
(for a minute I thought they grew cows)
at ausoniawines.com you will notice that
NO ENTRIES HAVE BEEN MADE
FOR THE PAST THREE AND HALF YEARS.

I assume that the winemakers are dead,
for surely otherwise, they would have
SOMETHING TO SAY.

e.g.

11/11/2018: The Chard is fully fermented
and we invited the family over for a tasting.

My brother-in-law is now asleep under
the tractor so I can’t do any more work
today.

It’s 11:30am.

Maybe I should shop for cheap vineyard
properties in Argentina before they disappear.
(The properties, not the relatives.
Stay tuned to learn what happens to
Malbec country.)

Francesca says that the Trebbiano is
already sold out so we’ll be celebrating
THAT tonight with a community hayride.

If we can wake up her brother.

Hang in there.