{"id":1488,"date":"2010-11-29T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2010-11-29T06:00:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T13:00:24","slug":"apple-wine-literary-references","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/29\/apple-wine-literary-references\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Wine: Literary references"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/29\/apple-wine-2008\/\"> make apple wine<\/a>, and I&#8217;ve noticed it popping up in popular culture. Here&#8217;s a list of some references that I remember. Going forward, I&#8217;ll update this post with new apple wine appearances as I notice them. And ok, yes, I used to watch &#8220;Desperate Housewives.&#8221; There. I said it.<\/p>\n<h2>Desperate Housewives<\/h2>\n<p>Bree gets out of bed and goes downstairs to where Rex is sleeping on  the couch. When she reaches him, she coughs politely and he rolls over,  telling her that he&#8217;s up. She smiles and sits down on the edge of the  pull out bed. &#8220;Good. I have a question for you.&#8221; He rolls his eyes, then  pulls off the covers to sit next to her. &#8220;Okay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul><em>Bree: &#8220;Do you remember when you  proposed?&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nRex: &#8220;For God&#8217;s sake.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;We sat on Skyline Drive and drank a  bottle of apple wine and when we finished it, you turned to me and you  said, &#8216;If you marry me, Bree Mason, I promise to love you for the rest  of my life.&#8217; And even though I was engaged to Ty Grant, and even though  my father didn&#8217;t like you, I said yes.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n&#8220;That was a long time ago.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;You are going to cancel the meeting  with that divorce lawyer and we are going to find ourselves a marriage  counselor.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n&#8220;Bree!&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;You promised.&#8221;<\/em><\/ul>\n<p>They look at each other.<\/p>\n<ul>He nods. &#8220;All right.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Good. I&#8217;m gonna go, uh, make myself some warm milk.&#8221; She gets up  and walks to the kitchen, stopping halfway to turn around and look at  him. &#8220;Would you like something to drink?&#8221; As he gets up from the bed, he mutters, &#8220;Anything but apple wine.&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p>~ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00079FUI6?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=washinwinema-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00079FUI6\">Desperate Housewives &#8211; season one<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=washinwinema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00079FUI6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>, episode 2: Ah, But Underneath<\/p>\n<h2>Assassin&#8217;s Apprentice<\/h2>\n<p>Prince Regal gives a gift of poisoned apple wine to Rurisk and tries to blame Fitz for the murder<\/p>\n<p>~ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/055357339X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=washinwinema-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=055357339X\">Assassin&#8217;s Apprentice<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=washinwinema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=055357339X\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> &#8211;  The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1, by Robin Hobb<\/p>\n<h2>After the Sunset<\/h2>\n<p>00:11:14\u00a0\u00a0<em>A bottle of the apple wine  was his prescription<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0007KZQAM?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=washinwinema-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0007KZQAM\">After the Sunset<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=washinwinema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0007KZQAM\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> (Movie: 2004)<\/p>\n<h2>Something to Talk About<\/h2>\n<p>00:54:46\u00a0\u00a0<em>What are you talking about?  Have you gotten into the apple wine?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0045HCJJ4?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=washinwinema-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0045HCJJ4\">Something to Talk About<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=washinwinema-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0045HCJJ4\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> (Movie: 1995)<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-style: italic;\">Update 7\/3\/2011: One Thousand and One Nights<\/h2>\n<p>Often called The Arabian Nights, this collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories goes back centuries. In the tale of the Mock Caliph on the 288th night:<\/p>\n<p><em>Quoth the sham Caliph, &#8220;I have drink other than this, a kind of apple-wine, that will suit thy companion.&#8221; So he bade them bring the cider which they did forthright<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/3438\">Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4<\/a>, translated by Richard Burton<\/p>\n<p>Burton translated, &#8220;Shar\u00e1b al-tuff\u00e1h&#8221; in Arabic to &#8220;apple-wine&#8221; in 1885. His notes say it means <em>melapio<\/em> or <em>cider.<\/em> Does this mean that in the late 19th century, apple wine and cider were synonyms?<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-style: italic;\">Update 7\/23\/2011: A Dance With Dragons<\/h2>\n<p><em>No one slept, not even Droopeye Dale, an oarsman who had been known to nap between strokes. Some of the men shared a skin of Galbart Glover&#8217;s apple wine, passing it from hand to hand. Those who had brought food shared it with those who had not.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0553801473\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=washinwinema-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399373&#038;creativeASIN=0553801473\">A Dance with Dragons<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0553801473&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399373\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> &#8211; A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 5, by G. R. R. Martin<\/p>\n<h2>Any others?<\/h2>\n<p>Have you noticed apple wine in tv shows, movies, or books? Leave a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/29\/apple-wine-literary-references\/#comment\">comment<\/a> and let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Desperate Housewives to Tales of the Arabian Nights, apple wine pops up more often than you might think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-wine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}