American wine
March 04, 2003 ~ 9:48 p.m.
In the local convenience store, I found a bottle of red wine tonight with the name Echo Falls. With a name like that, it could only be an Australian or an American wine. I ruled out American as it cost only �3.69. I have never known a wine from California to cost less than �5 on these shores, yet some Aussie wines can be rather inexpensive.
Then I saw the little pictograph of a waterfall above the title and it announced "California."
I snatched it up. It was on a shelf more than six feet high and way in the back, severely testing my reaching abilities. But I got it. I was not about to be undone by mere height in my quest for an unusally cheap American wine.
I returned home with it, holding the bottle aloft as I walked in through the door, as if I'd been awarded a runner's trophy. It was like the Fall Sports Banquets of high school all over again.
Just before I plunged the corkscrew in, I noticed the "Produce of USA" disclaimer on the back label. I stared at it lovingly for luscious moments that seemed like hours.
And then I drank the mothafucker.
� M.E.M.
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