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Plumbing Travel: Where White Wine is Plentiful

We wish we lived in the Italian town of Marino, south of Rome. Or at least that we'd been staying there over the weekend when wine began pouring out of taps and showers across the village.

The white wine was meant to be flowing out of the town's fountain to celebrate the annual wine harvest. But as perhaps only Italian engineers could do, they hooked up the wrong pipes and housewives found the wine pouring out into their kettles and mop buckets instead.

For wine lovers, the drop was a kind of Frascati, a slightly bubbly white wine that's famous in the region. Of course officials say the mistake won't happen again, but we still think a stop by Marino's a good bet for a free drink.

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[Photo: Peter Darch]