Wait – is that Cicero’s handwriting? What’s Cicero written on it?
The wine’s numbered. There is an order. Cicero’s spidery scrawl.
Written in gold pen – very deliberate. She went out and bought a gold pen to write this.
Cicero’s messages from the grave – or wherever she is.
She’s drawn something on this label.
13 – that’s what she’s written.
It must be a countdown. Counting down to what?
The ultimate bottle. The last bottle.
She’s written ultra before wine.
Ultra wine.
She’s got a little arrow pointing up after the ‘e’. And inserted an h.
Whine. Is she telling us to whine?
We’re good at that.
Drink me, she’s written. She’s trying to poison us. That’s her game.
Remember happened to Alice in Wonderland. Didn’t she shrink and stuff? She fell down a rabbit hole, just like us. Several rabbit holes.
She’s written wine. Wine wine. Like wine squared? What does that mean?
This is, like, the ultimate wine. The last of all the wines. The wine to which all the other wine was leading?
The bottle’s dusty. It is. That its immense age. Its vintage. It’s May 1968 wine. Wine from May 1968 …
The seventh bottle. You remember what Cicero said about the seventh bottle? You remember the legend of the seventh bottle.
No I don’t.
Nor do I, actually.
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