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Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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Nebbiolo

Viniculture
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Nebbiolo is a Piedmontese grape, famous for Barolo and Barbaresco, producing tannic wines with tar and rose aromas.

Detailed Definition
Nebbiolo’s poetic mystique lies in its elusive, almost mercurial character—its thick skins yield a wine that is initially harsh but transforms into ethereal beauty with age, a perfect metaphor for redemption, patience, and the slow revelation of truth. Its name comes from “nebbia” (fog), which blankets the Langhe hills in autumn, giving it a shrouded, secretive allure. Poets invoke Nebbiolo to explore duality—the bruising grip of tannins and the delicate lift of roses, mirroring the lover’s cruelty and tenderness, the past’s weight and memory’s fragrance.
Example
Example in poetry:
Nebbiolo|"Nebbiolo, the grape of fog and roses, is a wine of power and ethereal beauty, a poem of paradox."; "The poet finds in Nebbiolo the taste of tar and rose, a combination of the dark and the delicate."; "Nebbiolo's thick skins and high tannins make it a wine for aging, a subject for poems about the rewards of patience."; "The poet uses Nebbiolo to evoke the foggy hills of Piedmont, a landscape of mystery and hidden beauty."; "Nebbiolo is a wine of complexity, a poem that reveals its layers slowly, demanding attention."; "The poet compares Nebbiolo to a metaphysical poem, full of contradictions and deep meaning."
Additional Notes
Nebbiolo is the noble grape of Piedmont, responsible for the great wines of Barolo and Barbaresco. Its name derives from "nebbia," the Italian word for fog, which often blankets the Langhe hills during the harvest season. This romantic association makes Nebbiolo a perfect subject for poets exploring themes of mystery, transience, and the beauty of the misty, ethereal landscape. The grape itself produces powerful, tannic wines with aromas of tar and roses, a combination of the dark and the delicate that is rich with poetic potential. Students should note that Nebbiolo is notoriously difficult to grow and requires specific conditions, making it a symbol of the challenges and rewards of cultivating excellence. Related terms include Barolo, Barbaresco, and Langhe.
Also Known As
fog grape Barolo king tannic powerhouse Barolo
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