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...appetizer course was made extra special by a glass of pro secco—Italian sparkling white wine??as suggested by Cynthia Ruffner, Metropolis’ general manager. The pro secco felt as festive as champagne but lacked the aftertaste and stale scent, making it much smoother and easier to drink. It functioned to open the palate and ready it for the truly great main courses...
...show, entitled “Drink my wine??dig my earth,” found its genesis in Music 91r, an independent study class. As a class project, Michael D. Ramos ’02 and Matthew T. O’Malley ’02 sought to create a showcase of musical diversity. Even the title, a line from Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower,” they said, was meant to serve as a poetic offering of their music...
Kevin H. Meyers, Hasty Pudding thespian, was the loudest audience member with his glass of Kenwood merlot. After informing the crowd that he’d “been having some wine?? (get out!), Kevin presented some haikus that, charitably, fell under a loose definition of “haiku.” “This Spring I’ll wear high heels / I make a hideous girl / but that’s OK,” he told he audience. And he was right...
...Less than enthralling. I am not a captious man, but this wine??s heavy nose was so striking, the experience was almost enervating. The bouquet possesses an unsteady, if protean structure: alternating undertones of honey and pencil lead emanate. Though not excessively rustic per se, I sense a sour, dense, deep tannin with a persistent, yet subtle, inner, unpalatably concentrated fruitiness. It leaves an unpleasant emptiness. In a sense, the finish is a bit jejune...