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Unless you went to Montepulciano Middle School or the Grange Prep School, chances are that you don’t have a wine named after the school you attended.
Ah, but I do. As fate would have it, this wine scribe attended Palisades High School in Southern California, affectionately known as Pali. And yes, there is actually an acclaimed pinot noir producer who markets their wines under the moniker of the Pali Wine Company. And, as this is the 700th WineInk column I have penned, please excuse a little personal indulgence.
In my youth, as a precocious high school student, I developed a fondness for a cheap Portuguese wine called Mateus Rosé. Rod Stewart, the gravelly voiced “vocalist-extraordinaire,” was a prodigious consumer of said wine and even credited it on “Every Picture Tells a Story” as a “vocal abrasive.” That was all I needed to know. Good enough for Rod, good enough for me.