It’s a good time to think about wine. Well, not where I live right now, which is northern California, with its 800 wildfires making the air smell like when a leftover smoked ham hock rolls under the couch and gets forgotten for a while. It hit something like 110 today. The red wine is in the fridge. I’ve hung the back leg of a pig outside, hoping to have Speck by morning.
Anyway, what I wanted to tell you is that you could win some mighty fancy Italian wine if you were inclined to write a bit. Yes, just leave a comment and your email address under this Italian Wine Blog post: Tenuta dell’Ornellaia Bolgheri Superiore Ornellaia and you’ll be entered. Do it before Friday, OK?
But here’s the kicker. You have to be in Europe—or have an address there it can be shipped to. Sorry. You could always ship it to my humble abode in the Lunigiana. No one will drink it. Promise.
At least the Italians aren’t in the position the French are in, where they gotta dumb down their wine and sophisticate up their marketing in order to beat Spain in the International Competition to Sell More Wine to Americans Who Don’t Like Foreign Tasting Wines.
Mmmm, globalization is soooo nice.