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Drinking with a man nicknamed God

Dante’s Beach, Ravenna The closest I get to a social life these days is when I sneak out into town for an hour or so to buy red wine, trying not to get caught by my wife and six children. I have found a place that sells a fantastic Sangiovese at €2.60 a liter which is dispensed like gasoline from a cask behind the counter into one-and-a-half liter plastic bottles that once contained mineral water. I buy four bottles each time I go. Once home I s…