INDIANAPOLIS - Despite professing to be a wine and distillation connoisseur, Indiana man Manfred Kowalski quite clearly only participated in Columbus Winery's 10-for-five-dollar tasting Monday so that he could get totally wasted, said staff at the winery.
Noting the inordinate pace with which the 27-year-old consumed each tasting, winery supervisor Michelle Grade insisted that Kowalski appeared to "zone out" when she described to him the palatal effect of each wine.
"I don't know, he didn't seem all that interested in hearing about how dry or sweet everything was," she said. "He just sort of... well, he just knocked back every sample without mercy."
Making what staff have described as "semi-serious jokes" about the alcohol content of each drink, Kowalski seemed to choose the wines with the highest concentration of alcohol, said wine worker Brian Walton.
"He was very interested in the Merlot," he said. "He asked me which type had the greatest kick and whether any of them would likely induce a huge hangover."
"It was just a little rude, is all."
When asked whether he might be interested in purchasing the winery's special bottle of Cabernet, Kowalski reportedly told staff that he had "unfortunately just spent my last five bucks on that tasting thing we just did, but maybe next time."
