Based on a true story (& abetted by my long abiding love for sweet dessert wine). Did it stem from this event? I can’t say. But it’s nice to acknowledge one of the fungi kingdom’s less glamorous members. 

The Factoid comes from an episode of Jancis Robinson’s Wine Course (first screened in 2003) & which has stuck with me to this day. One day …

[Disclaimer: This poem was written on the correct day (Monday) but was unable to get it online owing to online courses, meetings, & other exhaustions.]

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Day 14 Factoid – Some Crazy Germans Make Wine From Ice

Eiswein

Take good grapes
Free of rot
Do not pick them

Wait till winter
Till they all freeze
Then quick as you can

Get everyone out
With frozen fingers
Grab them all at once

Crush. Ferment. Drink.
Get very silly. (Hic.)
On that very sweet juice.

Something I’ve never tried
But would like to
(The getting silly mainly)

[Happy to let someone else do the rest]