“It was an okay vintage, if you could get past the fact that it was wine, and—stripped of the ability to get drunk on it—wine was just sour grape juice.”

— Charles Stross , book Iron Sunrise

Source: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 14, “Sybarite Class” (p. 228)

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