Oh Oh no. Long Island’s North Fork wineries are finding winos and oenophiles don’t mix, according to the NY Times.
inebriated group at the Palmer Vineyards here who hopped off a hayride and began gallivanting naked through the vines. Then there were the drunken customers at the Pugliese Vineyards in Cutchogue who jumped into the shimmering lake next to the elegant outdoor tasting area. And the bachelorette parties that often culminate in tabletop dances, to the horror of nearby oenophiles sniffing or sipping the local chardonnays.
Apparently they’re a problem here in the Finger Lakes, too, spurring the formation of “… the Safe Group Wine Tours Initiative. The program issues warnings to groups that are considered out of control and will bar repeat offenders.”
Funny, I don’t remember getting wild at the wine tastings I used to attend at Tabor Hill Winery in Michigan….perhaps it’s exactly the lack of memory that’s the problem…
I’m in full support of wine tastings getting out of control. What can I say – it shows a deeper appreciate of the grape. 🙂
Love the wine and love the post! Haven’t gotten nearly wild enough at a wine tasting, apparently!
Yikes. Our poor wine critic goes down there and has to spit all because of the 4 hour drive back.
Some people have all the fun.
I’m with Pam. What’s the big problem? It’s wine.
I’m thinking of Charles Baudelaire…
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Be Drunken Always
You must always drunk. That’s all there is to it – it’s the only way.
So as not to feel the horrible burden of time break your back and bend you to the earth, you must be drunken always.
But on what?
On Wine, on poetry or on virtue, as you wish.
But be drunken.
And if sometimes you wake on the steps of a palace or the green grass of
a ditch or in the mournful solitude of your room and find your drunkenness diminishing or gone…
Then ask the wind, the waves, the stars, the birds, the clocks, everything that flies, everything that groans, everything that rolls, everything that is singS, everything that speaks. . . ask “what time is it” and wind, waves, stars, birds, clocks will answer you:”It is time to be drunken!
So as not to be the martyred slaves of time, you must be drunken always, be
continually drunk!
But on what? On wine, on poetry or on virtue as you wish.”