Wine
by brian @ 22:29:41 - [perma-link]I think its impossible to talk about wine without sounding pretentious. For example, this weekend we went camping. We brought along 6 bottles
of wine. red wine doesn't need to be chilled, so we didn't have to ice
it like we would if we had brought beer. We had two bottles of Stag's
Leap and 4 bottles of Bonny Doon Cardinal Zin. The couple in the tent next door came by and we offered them some wine.
They liked it, so we told them it was the Cardinal Zin. Its from the
Bonny Doon winery in Santa Cruz, its good, and it has funny labels.
The Cardinal Zin has a funny devil-looking guy on it. Their Cigar
Volante, a very good $30 bottle of wine, has a picture of a UFO flying
over a vinyard, and on the back explains how some region of France, if
I recall, made a law declaring that no UFOs may fly over their fields,
as it could affect the grapes. When we finished that bottle, they offered a bottle they had brought.
He defensively said it was his friend who bought it and it was cheap.
Out came a bottle of Charles Shaw. It sells a Trader Joe's, and it is
a pretty good bottle of wine, and a great bottle at the price: $1.99 in
CA, and $2.99 in OR. Charles Shaw had some deal to supply the
Airlines, or something, and it fell through and all of a sudden they
had no money and warehouses full of good wine. He was delighted and surprised and couldn't wait to tell his friend. I mean, come on! How pretentious was that?!?!?! | 