Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Bob Dylan's Wine

That's w-i-n-e. There's no "h" in there. Never was. The man's a poet. Christopher Ricks will back me up on that. But this post isn't about his lyrics or his voice, but his taste. The Guardian reports:

Bob Dylan is a man of many aspects: poet, protester and born-again Christian. Now, it seems, the bard has turned to the bottle.

The eternal bohemian has developed an interest in upmarket Italian wine, with the result that, later this year, a classy blend of Montepulciano and Merlot will reach the shelves in a bottle signed by the singer and bearing the name of his 1974 album Planet Waves


The article ends with an appropriate quote from one of his more famous songs:

"Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."
(-from All Along the Watchtower)

Now we know: $64


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