Villa Pro Sagitta Et Bos

Hand Crafted In The Glorious Tradition of The GREAT Austrailian Fighting Wines!

The bottling procedure was more than a little interesting. The ciphening hose refused to cooperate during the first 6 bottles of the operation. Consequently, we each sucked about a bottle's worth trying to get the fool wine out of the carboy and into the bottles. (Looking back, we probably should have eaten something before starting...Things got sillier and sillier the longer it took.)

Well...occasionally miracles DO happen. Our chief vintner (scavenging about in search of something else...a midi cable actually...) managed to locate a label from our August, 1997 vintage: Mensa Albus (Table White with Variations). The variations came about not so much by design, but through incompetence. While busily mixing together the ingredients for White, our Genius Vintner was reading the recipe for Red (which, as you may or may not know, requires MORE sugar). The net result was a white with a much higher alcohol content and a somewhat sweeter flavor. The recipe called for something in the chablis category...and we ended up with something in the muscat canelli category.

This vintage aged very well. It was quite drinkable immediately. Over the course of eighteen months, it mellowed a bit. I suspect it would have lasted three or four years; but, alas, during the extensive testing (in our modern scientific labs), the volume of this fine vintage diminished from 100% down to zip, nil, nada, none. An investigation has been launched to determine if the testing facilities are somehow faulty...

This page last modified on March 9th, 1999