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Wine and an Insult – An Original Prequel to Edgar Allen Poe’s “A Cask of Amontillado"

INTRO: Fortunato requested that I have dinner with him and a small number of well known associates in which we all shall distinguish differences between wines. The fortunate winner takes home a bottle of his or her preferred wine. Being a man of wine myself I have the unsurpassed chance of accomplishing the task of distinguishing the wine and taking a fabulous prize to my palazzo to add to my ever growing collection of fine wines.
STUFF I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO WRITE: Some dialect and insults will go here ………… every one sits down for dinner and taste the wine. One of the other guest (a female, to make the main character even more humiliated) guesses correct on the type of wine and they get to pick their favorite which happens to be the main characters favorite. The main character (Montresors… I’m guessing) gets fed up and leaves the table and Fortunato follows after him. He leaves the table because he was sooooo sure he’d be the one to win the wine. Fortunato says something like “you’re not as great as you think you are.” and this sets the main character on a sarcastic rant about how great Fortunato is. The comment of “you’re not as great as you think you are.” Is the insult the main character is talking about when Poe starts A Cask of Amontillado.
CONCLUSION (kinda... >.> wink After everything we’ve been through ….. end it with the beginning of A Cask of Amontillado.
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled -- but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong." (Poe 1)