Over on Basic Juice, Beau recently posted about "unartful" wine words - like "punch down" and "disgorgement" - though we rather like punchdowns. More on that later.
Today at Twisted Oak we encountered another ugly wine wine term: MOG. MOG is actually an acronym for "Material Other than Grape". The picture to the right is a nice pile of MOG on our crush pad floor. Sometimes the fruit comes in with something more, and we have to de-MOG-rify. It's actually pretty Zen-ful work, plucking the leaves from around the sweet sticky fruit. Layers of sugar actually build up on your hands until they get stiff and you have to wash them off.
Why bother? We like our wines to GO with the salad, not BE the salad! Not only that, but excessive greens can leach bitter flavors into the juice, and who wants that?
I also need to talk for a moment about the spawn of El Jefe, on the left there working the forklift with some degree of expertise. Greg does great work around here but for some reason he has dodged getting a nickname. Fermento suggested "Bitch" of course, but it just doesn't sound right... "That's my son Bitch over there, and I am very proud of him!" Nope. Can't do it.
Anyway, he was kicking butt today between the excellent forklift work and the de-MOG-rification. He needs a nickname. Make a suggestion if you like.
D. Mogo (the mog should sound like fog)
It has a hip hop sound to it ;)
Posted by: pissed off patricia | September 02, 2006 at 07:03 AM
How about "Bad Muthaforker" ?
Posted by: beau | September 02, 2006 at 11:01 AM
how bout.............. ummmmm...........grego. Or, lets just stick with G-Stai. It works, I will still call him Bitch, though.
Posted by: heather | September 02, 2006 at 02:00 PM