Character Assassination

As visitor numbers to the Wine Goose site continue to climb, with the global audience now into double digits, Mr Q has requested that his anonymity be preserved. In a transition similar to that experienced in Dallas in 1984, when Donna Reed briefly replaced Barbara Bel Geddes as Miss Ellie, he will henceforth be known as Mr R. Let's hope he doesn't wake up and find that his life with Wine Goose has all been a dream.

And so to dreams - to dream of drinking wine forebodes joy and consequent friendships. For a young woman to dream of drinking wine indicates that she will marry a wealthy gentleman. To dream of breaking bottles of wine foretells that your love and passion will border on excess. All this and more from the Global Oneness dream interpretation website.

With St Valentines Day approaching, Wine Goose is encouraging to Mr R to surprise her with a delicious bottle of Prosecco, an Italian sparkling wine made from the grape of the same name. Do not expect the body or complexity that you will find in a chardonnay-based sparkling wine like Champagne. (How very French not to provide any translation of their official Champagne website). Instead the vat-fermented spumante is light, bubbly, fresh and gently fragrant. Brut is the driest version, while 'dry' is confusingly the sweetest, and 'extra dry' is somewhere in between. The best Prosecco comes from the hills between the towns of Valdobbiadene and Conegliano so look out for either of these names on the label, and you will be rewarded with more intense fruit flavours. Sweet dreams.