Markies

De Markies
Homid	Ragabash	Bone Gnawers

Excuse, my fine young sir.

Might I take a moment, to congratulate thee

On thine excellent taste in color and fashion?

And offer thee a complimentary drink to go with my statement?

Alas! I seem to have left my purse at home

It's a funny story, actually.. Have a seat and listen

Waiter? Two more please!

March, 2011: An excellent fat and sparkling English pinot noir. Bottle was found in a dump sale of two year relation gift stock. Accidentally kept too moist, which greatly increased the body and dark color and instantly upgraded this one euro twelve bottle to the likes of a ten year old quality wine.

April, 2011: liebfraumilch is often seen as a mixed grapes dump wine, since German law gives it lower requirements then other wines, such as at least a 30% of quality grape species. The self-proclaimed expert unknowingly name it among the beverages that claim to be wine but are actually sugary suicides. However, like a pearl diver, one should keep trying because there certainly are a number of pearls. In this specific case, a Polish wine farmer bought a load of Müller-Thurga grapes in hopes of making the German grade but in his misunderstanding used the whole load to produce a superb 100% Müller, passing the grade by far. One euro thirty.

May, 2011: a fantastic Merlot varietal that managed a hint of chagrin due to being grown on the shadowy side of a valley. This makes for smaller grapes, but due to a lucky river flood filled with an amazing tangine flavour. Immensely powerful, with a color that could have been the blood of god. Three euro's ninety-nine.

August, 2011: although purists will claim that drinking blended wine is like playing a game of Russian roulette with your taste buds, I beg to differ. To celebrate the union of three different septs I found a wine that was built from both French and American grapes. A shame that relatively southern pinot noir had such a dominating taste, the western gamay grape only managed a small peak here and there.

September, 2011: the bottle was called "wolfblut". The taste reminded me of cheap hotels and cheap women. Luckily, my friends have experience with neither and thus found it an excellent wine.

November, 2011: An ill omen. Neither the LIDL nor the better ALDI had any decent wines under 5 euro's. Seeing the better tale makes a better wine, I presented the least of the worst and spun a great yarn that made it passable. Actually, it passed twice, so to say.

With great sadness in our voice and heart, we regret to inform all that our friend, companion, fellow dumpster explorer, nobleman and packmate has fallen. In a charge to be remembered, the Markies as the sept leader led the battle to bring down the Wyrm of Yeast. Seperated from his fellow garou, surrounded by wyrm foes both big and small, he was smitten to the ground. Then torn apart, burned to a crisp, thrown through the air a couple of times, smashed into other garou, hammered into a wall and been given a display of very bad taste. It is unknown which of these was the final cause of his demise. He will be greatly missed by ladies of (reputable) nobility and wine farmers all over Europe.