La Sibilla Vineyards — napoliunplugged.com

“That’s Chablis,” Vincenzo Di Meo told me as we walked through the sloping entrance to his family’s vineyard one morning late last August. He was referring to the family cat – not to the grape varietal. Chablis the cat was insouciantly rebuffing my attempts to pet her. I thought of another notoriously capricious Chablis—the drag queen in the lauded John Berendt book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. When I told Enzo about Lady Chablis, he shrugged and said, “I guess Chablis can be difficult.” After a moment’s pause he thoughtfully added, “But worth the trouble.”

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