Casa Vin' Arte LbNA #25275
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Sep 5, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Fairport |
| County: | Monroe |
| State: | New York |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Urban Letterboxer  |
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| Found by: | watchingtheblur |
| Last found: | Apr 5, 2016 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Sep 5, 2006 |
This is a combination traditional/mystery/virtual/ letterbox. The physical location of this letterbox is revealed at this mystery website:
www. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .com
Answer the questions below to discover the web address containing the location of the letterbox. Once you learn the address, (Here’s the catch for those who can figure this out without answering the questions) bring your completed answers to the address posted on the website. The box will be presented to you. Prost! [Oddly enough, the Urban Letterboxer does not drink wine!]
Bring your own ink pad and pen.
1. During the prohibition, grape growers in California would ship bricks of dehydrated Zinfandel grapes east to Chicago and New York in railcars. These concentrated bricks of sugary grapes came with a strong warning label: CAUTION! Do not add these grapes to 5 gallons of water and five pounds of sugar with____________________ (1st letter of this word is #1 and #13), or it will ferment into wine, which is ILLEGAL.
2. ________________ is the amount of headspace in a wine bottle (The 1st letter of this word is #3).
3. An award-winning adaptation of "Little Red Riding Hood" was withdrawn from a recommended reading list by the school board in Culver City, California, simply because the heroine had included ________________ (1st letter is # 6 and #8) in the basket she brought to her grandmother.
4. “Wine is a mocker; strong drink is raging: and whosoever is decieved thereby is not wise” is from the book of _________________(2nd letter is #4).
5. A morbid, irrational fear of or aversion to wine is called ____________________ (1st letter is #2 and #5).
6. In 1985, Christie’s auction house sold a 1787 Chateau Lafite for £105,000. Driving up the price was the belief that this bottle of wine was once owned by _______________________ ______________________ (Last letter is #7 and #10).
7. The first commercial U.S. winery, was established in 1823 in this state: __________________________ (7th letter is # 12)
8. The country that produces the most wine by volume is__________________ (1st letter is #9).
9. According to Greek mythology, the first "coupe" (champagne glass) was said to be molded from the _______________________(3rd letter is #11) of Helen of Troy. Centuries later, it is reported that Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, decided it was time to create a new champagne glass. She volunteered the same items belonging to her . . . and thus changed the shape of the glass entirely. [Sadly, neither of these stories are actually true.]
www. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .com
Answer the questions below to discover the web address containing the location of the letterbox. Once you learn the address, (Here’s the catch for those who can figure this out without answering the questions) bring your completed answers to the address posted on the website. The box will be presented to you. Prost! [Oddly enough, the Urban Letterboxer does not drink wine!]
Bring your own ink pad and pen.
1. During the prohibition, grape growers in California would ship bricks of dehydrated Zinfandel grapes east to Chicago and New York in railcars. These concentrated bricks of sugary grapes came with a strong warning label: CAUTION! Do not add these grapes to 5 gallons of water and five pounds of sugar with____________________ (1st letter of this word is #1 and #13), or it will ferment into wine, which is ILLEGAL.
2. ________________ is the amount of headspace in a wine bottle (The 1st letter of this word is #3).
3. An award-winning adaptation of "Little Red Riding Hood" was withdrawn from a recommended reading list by the school board in Culver City, California, simply because the heroine had included ________________ (1st letter is # 6 and #8) in the basket she brought to her grandmother.
4. “Wine is a mocker; strong drink is raging: and whosoever is decieved thereby is not wise” is from the book of _________________(2nd letter is #4).
5. A morbid, irrational fear of or aversion to wine is called ____________________ (1st letter is #2 and #5).
6. In 1985, Christie’s auction house sold a 1787 Chateau Lafite for £105,000. Driving up the price was the belief that this bottle of wine was once owned by _______________________ ______________________ (Last letter is #7 and #10).
7. The first commercial U.S. winery, was established in 1823 in this state: __________________________ (7th letter is # 12)
8. The country that produces the most wine by volume is__________________ (1st letter is #9).
9. According to Greek mythology, the first "coupe" (champagne glass) was said to be molded from the _______________________(3rd letter is #11) of Helen of Troy. Centuries later, it is reported that Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, decided it was time to create a new champagne glass. She volunteered the same items belonging to her . . . and thus changed the shape of the glass entirely. [Sadly, neither of these stories are actually true.]