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The crazy tasting (version 3)

A madman has escaped from an asylum. In his aimless wandering enters a room. There is held a contest for wine tasters. Dionysus is his name and yet they look so neat that nobody suspected her condition. After all, this man had gone crazy, completely, try to put together a collection of spoiled wines of the most important wineries in the world. Such a huge undertaking! Thus it was that relatives, friends, neighbors or acquaintances, to travel to a country with good wineries, had the order, hopeless, to bring some bottles of fine wines. Beyond that he could not carry out studies, is an excellent taster, a great reader of literature, as well as an avid traveler. Well known regions and their wines as the best expert and his opinion is taken into account, even by professionals, they respect you as a couple. An accidental event caused a fire that destroyed his home in the hills, despite his futile attempts to save a few bottles of fire, the precious collection was destroyed in the rubble of the roof beams and shingles. Hundreds of bottles were reduced to a pile of glass, shedding his prized content over the flagstone floor, and evaporate in an instant. Nothing was left of such an effort and dedication of years and years, wine jewelry care as a treasure reserved for the best times from a close circle of friends. Friends like Dionisio, are demanding lovers of good wine, trained and refined palates. Our crazy, in a careless guard the asylum, had managed to escape and explore the cosmopolitan city, walked and walked. Going through one of the main streets and the local view in which the contest is done by a jury of national and foreign experts. As if it were instinctively guided by smell, go to the local with such resolution and such excellence, that nothing prevents you entered in the list of contestants to finally be able to participate. In your eyes a certain gleam of madness, some stability in the crystal glasses deriving its range of deep reds, bright or pearls, amber or clear white. A look that could only be detected by other knowledgeable, expert, in this case in psychiatry. As it may, no one notices, and immediately sees a large number hanging from his lapel. Along with the rest of the contestants, before some long tables with white tablecloths to the floor, attendees filled glasses of wine from bottles wrapped in neat napkins. The contest is to guess the type of wine, a description of its features, brand and winery of origin. A range of wines from all over the world, which makes it extremely complex and difficult to answer. Participants consummate experts, are twelve, including Dionysus and the prize as important as the requirement of the contest itself. One glass after another, which an expert taster, our beloved and crazy, is hitting with absolute precision, compared to the astonished gaze of the public, the attentive jury and confused the participants, that little by little, will be disqualified . The final reñidísima is another crazy about wine like him, but in the cup defining achieved Dionisio overcome. The prize is a trip to several wineries spread across Europe, North and South America. When a juror asked how does he know so much wine, Dionysus responds with infinite sadness: - "I loved a woman locally who taught me to discover the wine. Cibeles died, and my beloved wine collection went after it. "

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