This is the place to make lots of new friends... maybe even fall in love! The wine world is full of "varietal characters", each with a personality all its own. Of course they're not all aristocrats, or even the finest clonal selections, but altogether they're a very rich bunch..."rich" in the spice that keeps life interesting - VARIETY!
Sangiovese
You’re a modest boy from Tuscany, seeking fame and fortune. You shed your woven straw attire for more austere threads of tannin with silky orange accents. At home, you began to turn your back on the rough childhood companions from the neighborhood, preferring to hang out in the cafes of Chianti with the French nobleman, King Cabernet. Now in America you’re the most stylish of a new generation of Italian immigrants. It appears that unassuming little boy named after the ‘Blood of Jupiter’ always was a would-be king himself… Italian royalty. (more)
WANTED!
Personality profiles that define the essential character of the
grapes in the mysterious varieties list. Email your compositions
to our Art Dept.
If your text shows promise our staff illustrator will go to work on a caricature.
REWARD!
Your Varietal Character will be featured on the Home Page and
installed in the Varietal Character Index. You will be given
FULL CREDIT (Yippie!) and ever after glow with pride knowing
that you have joined that exclusive fraternity of occasionally
sober writers at Appellation America who have time for this sort
of thing.
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