Category: Against The Day

• Montepulciano

  

  Drunk Pynchonette and I ordered a couple of (enormous) glasses of this last night then only realised halfway through ’em that the name’s familiar ring owed itself not to my comprehensive knowledge of Italian viticulture but to Pynchon’s most alcoholic of opuses, Against the Day. So it was camera out, non-Instgramming restraint and decency away, and time for…

  mjhorn

  October 3, 2015

  Against The Day, Wine

  Cyprian Latewood, Italy, Prince Spongiatosta

• Primitivo

  

  I finished Against the Day more than two months ago now. Or that’s when I read the last page anyway–who really ever finishes a Pynchon book. Drinking through it is sure going to take a while. The list is longer than for V, Gravity’s Rainbow, and Mason & Dixon combined. And it’s fun stuff, distillations of many of the books…

  mjhorn

  August 26, 2015

  Against The Day, Wine

  Andrea Tancredi, Dally Rideout, Hunter Penhallow, Italy