"METHODIST DRINKING"

Someday, I'll explain how that phrase also describes Moi's poetics. Right now, off to bring in the New Year with pals -- specifically the couple who love to hunt and whose first grape harvest was decimated by 30% due to grape aficionado wild animals like turkey and deer. That's a dangerous combination -- the dude once boasted of bringing down a turkey. When we noted that it wasn't turkey hunting season, he huffed: "I shot over his head. Is it my fault the turkey died of a heart attack?"

Such is life in wine country...and wine poetix!