I Was Already Tired When the Pet-Nat Kicked in. Then I Got Better.

Delinquente "Tuff Nutt" 2024

Bottle image courtesy of Indigo Wine

Delinquente "Tuff Nutt" Bianco Pet-Nat
Varietal: Bianco d’Alessano
Region: Riverland, Australia
Year: 2024
Price: ~$26
Importer: Hudson Wine Brokers

Pulling all-nighters is nothing new for me.

It’s just how my brain works. I get fixated—obsessed—and can’t stop until a project is done. I used to stay up all night writing essays about my cat or poems about my dad’s friend Tony Tetro, who went to prison for art forgery (including a fake Dalí that once hung in Prince Charles’s Dumfries House). Or collaging the covers of Five Star notebooks my friends and I used to pass notes between classes. (The original group text.)

I did the same writing my book, even before my three-month stint as a secret cokehead. I stayed up to meet magazine deadlines I’d probably already begged to extend. And lately, I’ve been pushing myself harder than a newly recruited Andrew Tate cadet, trying to rebuild the muscle of writing every day. No one asked me to. But I hold myself to stand…