Crystaahl Wine 🌻

ALT Q: On Hotel California, you sing: "So I called up the captain/Please bring me my wine/He said, 'We haven’t had that spirit here since 1969.'" I realize I’m probably not the first to bring this to your attention, but wine isn’t a spirit. Wine is fermented; spirits are distilled. Wine also has a lower ABV (alcohol by volume) percentage than spirits. Do you regret that lyric? A: Thanks for the tutorial &, no, you’re not the first to bring this to my attention—& you’re not the first to completely misinterpret the lyric & miss the metaphor. Believe me, I’ve consumed enough alcoholic beverages in my time to know how they are made & what the proper nomenclature is. But that line in the song has little or nothing to do with alcoholic beverages. It’s a sociopolitical statement. My only regret would be having to explain it in detail to you, which would defeat the purpose of using literary devices in songwriting & lower the discussion to some silly & irrelevant argument about chemical processes.