Fifty-plus readers surveyed, and the answer is...!

[lagilman]

Off the poll so far I have drawn the following preliminary conclusions:

1. Many of you are moderately interested in the actual crafting-of-wine details, while some of you are very interested, and very few of you would skip over those passages entirely. Nobody's going to dump (or admit that they would dump)the book because it's not a History of Wine Making in a 14th Century Sidestep Fantasy

2. Most of you would either not know or accept-as-part-of-world any differences from actual wine-making processes. While some of you would be thrown out of the book, since the average level of knowledge is at "they grow grapes and crush them," I'd probably have to do something pretty scary to throw you out of the story.

Does this sound about right?

Comments

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

Sounds right to me.

[ladyn.livejournal.com]

Yep, yep, yep. :)

[controuble.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me.
I've never actually made wine from grapes - only other fruit or dandelions (no Bradbury jokes, please - I HATED that book.)

[egret17.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. As long as you aren't, say, crushing people - I think even I would catch that one...

[lagilman]

So you don't want to know about the historical rate of industrial/chemical accidents during the process?

(I was tempted to have someone die during the punch-down, but figured it might be a bit over the top, never mind that it actually does happen)

[patchwork-prose.livejournal.com]

Yup!

[egret17.livejournal.com]

No! I don't want to think about how much pureed person could end up in wine...

[e-cunningham.livejournal.com]

"Fifty-plus readers surveyed..."

Now that MY demographic has weighed in, are you going to poll the young whippersnappers?

:)

[e-booklover.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me...hmmm almost like my answers :)

[lagilman]

damn it, you made me snarf a cookie...

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Yup.

[javacatz.livejournal.com]

sounds about right to me. I forgot to post after I took the poll, but for a casual drinker who only likes very specific types of wine, I would find it interesting if the wine-making process differences were explained between the types. For example, I only like sweet wines, like reisling & piesporter. I also like a variety of port wines, but again, if they are too dry ...yech.

[arouraleona.livejournal.com]

::blinks:: wine comes from grapes?

J/K. I think you've hit it on the nose.

[spiffikins]

sounds about right

[vcmw]

I think it would have to get different enough that grapes were no longer involved before it threw me out of the story.