I get a call one day, a writer from the Daily Pilot wants to interview me. Why me? Cuz I'm interesting, that's why.
(Some of this story might be a little exaggerated).
He went to the OC Fair to find a story. He searched and searched and searched. Disappointed, he went to the wine show for a refreshment. Getting his buzz on he skimmed through the hundreds of wine submissions, and found my rare wine entry. Cactus-Fruit Wine. He knew something was there and followed his instinct.
It's not as if I had gotten a Gold medal. But I'm not hung up on my placement...In fact, I made up my mind that most of those judges don't know how to rate good wine; like a lemming, they rate according to how they were told it should taste, not how they think it should taste. As far as I'm concerned, if it gets you drunk and it tastes all-right going down, you've got a winner. But personally, I think this fruit-wine is the best I've ever had.
Ultimately my dream is to have acres of this fruit and make the ideal wine from them. Its brix level is one of the highest of all fruit, next to grapes, which are methodically grown to have a high sugar content. And don't forget the curiosity and splendor of drinking wine from a fruit that could prick you! A truly remarkable product! The fruit itself is an aphrodisiac!
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8/16/13 (a year later...)
I'm in the paper, again! How can the guy who doesn't get 3rd place get so much attention?? I guess I'm the only one who doesn't mind the spotlight. The article's online, but you have to register with the OC Register, so I took the liberty of scanning the bit into parts and pasting them back together, and now you can read it for yourself right here...
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