Name (also prison wine) for a special "wine" that is produced in prisons in a primitive manner that is forbidden. In US penal institutions, such a brew is known as "Pruno". The inventor is unknown, but precise instructions came from Jarvis Jay Masters (*1962), sentenced to death for the murder of a guard in San Quentin prison in California. He wrote a poem describing his fate in prison and the pruno recipe. Masters was awarded the "PEN Award" for literature in 1992. He lived according to Buddhist precepts, became a philosopher and wrote the two books "Finding Peace: Writings from Death Row" and "The Bird Has My Wings".
There are various recipes, the ingredients (in technical language "kickers") are apples, oranges, canned fruit, stewed...
In the past, you needed a wealth of encyclopaedias and specialist literature to keep up to date in your vinophile professional life. Today, Wine lexicon from wein.plus is one of my best helpers and can rightly be called the "bible of wine knowledge".
Prof. Dr. Walter Kutscher
Lehrgangsleiter Sommelierausbildung WIFI-Wien