Pierce Ranch Vineyards
499 Wave St., Monterey | (831) 372-8900, piercevineyards.com
It’s fitting to see a stack of poetry books, many of them obscure, alongside a wine menu with blends you won’t find anywhere else, like the Tourbillon (43-percent Grenache, 37-percent Syrah, and 20-percent Petite Sirah). You can buy titles like The Sri Lankan Loxodrome by Will Alexander or Cunt Norton by Dodie Bellamy – 33 erotic love poems written in the style of greats like Shakespeare and Chaucer, with lots of dirty words thrown in. Or maybe you find poetry a tad inaccessible. Just try it with a glass of wine and you will be waxing poetic, “Cats have the wit, and dogs have the game… ”