Clever wine & literature pun here

December 14, 2017 7:08 PM

Can you tell me the names of wineries in famous works of literature?

(For a piece that I'm writing)

posted by falsedmitri to Writing & Language (5 answers total)

Probably not what you're looking for, but Xinghuacun is mentioned in Qing Ming, a poem from the Tang dynasty about people wandering around in the mist after a tomb sweeping holiday, looking for a drink to take the edge off.
posted by batter_my_heart at 8:36 PM on December 14, 2017

None of the characters visit wineries, but plenty of name-dropping in Brideshead Revisited
posted by Jellybean_Slybun at 11:00 PM on December 14, 2017

The Song of Songs (or Song of Solomon) has a reference to "the vineyards of En Gedi".
posted by rollick at 5:56 AM on December 15, 2017

There's a Lord Peter Wimsey story (which I am too lazy to look up) about Peter and a would be impersonator showing up at the house of a person who knows Peter only by reputation. The host decides that the way to tell the difference is to have both men identify a selection of wines by taste.

I didn't know enough about wine when I read it to know if the wineries were real or fictitious.
posted by Bruce H. at 7:43 AM on December 15, 2017

Lake-town in the Hobbit is referenced as distributing wine

The Cask of Amontillado refrences wine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cask_of_Amontillado


Sideways?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideways


But I don't know any references to wineries really
posted by Jacen at 1:37 PM on December 15, 2017