Tag: Prince Spongiatosta
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Merry Christmas! (Prosecco)
Amidst the festive chaos, I am cracking a bottle of Prosecco and making everyone tolerate me taking pictures of it atop a paperback of a Pynchon tome. It’s tradition! (See e.g. Pommery, Perrier Jouët, Piesporter, Pink Champagne) (Apparently, without ever consciously deciding to do so, I have curated a strictly P-initial sparkling canon. P for presents?…
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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…
Tom Pynchon's Liquor Cabinet 