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For any grape growers out there who are reading this, you would do well to know that it is possible to play me like a vintage Strad. If you simply ring up and say that you have a few acres of some very old vines of a particularly arcane Mediterranean grape variety and ask, in all innocence, if I might've any interest in same. You have not even finished the sentence and I am speed-dialing the banker to see about an extension of our credit line. I had no choice but to buy these grapes. I was biologically programmed, effectively hard-wired to crush and vinify them. What happened was that very shortly before the harvest, I actually went out and tasted the montonico grapes. Yes, they appeared to be from the vitis vinifera family. Did they have any discernible character, which might charitably be called "varietal?" Negatory. It also dawned upon me that we were looking at virtual panoply of fortified dessert wines in our arsenal. What's a mother to do? I dug out an old recipe for Christmas wine, which involved fortification with all sorts of festive and mysterious ingredients. I submit herewith, Exhibit "M". We included lemon and orange peel, cloves, cinnamon and a bunch of other things that are too proprietary for words but you could probably find out through the Freedom of Vinformation Act. This wine will shock and amaze you.
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