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The world is such that sometimes an accidental sequence of events can result in a glimpse of a world that is not of this world. That other world we immediately recognize as heaven.

Some homes in the Italian town of Marino had wine instead of water coming from their taps because of a plumbing mistake, residents say.

One Marino resident identified only as Anna said she was shocked to discover that what she thought was tap water she was using to mop the floor prior to the Marino Grape Festival was actually white wine, The Daily Telegraph said Tuesday.

“I was going to mop the floor with it but I immediately noticed a sweet smell from the tap and it was also slightly yellow — I recognized instantly it was wine,” Anna said.

Marino Mayor Adriano Palozzi told the newspaper the vino on tap was the result of a plumbing error as the wine was supposed to have been directed to the town’s main water fountain for the annual festival.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

12 replies on “Utopia”

  1. Oh my gawd.

    Someday, there will be an additional faucet on my kitchen sink. Hot, Cold, Wine. I’m gonna make it happen.

  2. Charles Mudede give The Incredible Sulk bottle of Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill, Sulk drink bottle, freak out, Grape out, THE INCREDIBLE SULK BECOME THE INCREDIBLE GRAPE!

    THE INCREDIBLE GRAPE WILL DIVE IN CAL ANDERSON PARK RESERVOIR, MAKE WATER BECOME WINE, EVERYONE IN SEATTLE BECOME DRINKY CROW!

    And no, I don’t feel like letting it go.

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