Italian Inmates Sip, Smell and Taste Their Way to Rehabilitation

From the New York Times:  Mr. Albanese, 43, is an instructor in an innovative effort at Lecce Penitentiary to teach inmates to be sommeliers, or wine stewards. The courses are part of a program to teach prisoners new professional skills, as well as to help them develop a bond with the Italian region, which is renowned for its Negroamaro grape varieties.

In Italy prisoners stay

behind bars and sip chardonnay.

They nibble on cheese

while scratching their fleas,

and soon are a fine sommelier!