So… I’m in the liquor store to get some wine for my wife and since I am cheap, I look at all of the wine that is on sale. I will admit, I am no wine expert but if I have a description I usually do OK. Here is the hitch: all of the bottles have beautiful descriptions on a card saying things like “hints of caramel” or “a robust oaky finish,” except for the ones on sale! Even though there is plenty of room on the face of the shelf to just slide the description card down to accommodate the sale card, they remove it completely. What gives? —Sir Winesalot
This article appears in Mar 24-30, 2011.
Excessive fruitiness is the mark of a bad wine, but a good sommelier.
Ba-dum-dum. Tsssshhhh.
Its on sale, buy one of each.
Then go home & experiment. Its fun to try different wines with food. When you hit one that you really like make a note somewhere.
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This is your bitch? Get a life OP…and while you’re at it grow a set. If you were that bothered that you wrote this bitch…you should have asked someone for help.
just look for hermits, that’ll do you just fine.
I’ve always found that liquor store employees are super helpful if you just ask. Did you try that? Ask if they have a recommendation?
First year of uni we used to cut hermit’s with golden glow. Made me the man I am today.
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well, he did say it was a whine rc…love the way we whinge
What ever you do, DO NOT EVER, buy a bottle of wine that says – “branyard, earth, musty, astringent, or leafy”. Barnyard taste like cow dung, musty taste like mold.
If you want to spend less than $10.00/bottle , buy beer.
The French can’t make red wine, the Italians can’t make white.
South American wine is good and inexpensive, eg Chile & Argentina.
this bitch is a lame varietal…from the meh region ..of nowhereville 🙂
Betcha when you take a twenty out of your wallet, Queen Elizabeth blinks from the light. Man, I can’t stand cheapness.
This is the NSLC calling; we are a crown corporation, so when did you think we gave a fuck about the customer? You can’t buy this anywhere else (almost) so suck it up and feel lucky we didn’t JACK UP THE PRICE. hmmph…
We are too busy giving each other a high five over 80% margins to get some peon to type that on the card.
I read the bottles.. which have the same information. I am also cheap and buy wine on sale, and I’ve never had a problem finding the descriptions about “hints of chocolate” or “oak-y finishes” on the back of the bottle :
Get the Cat Pee wine 🙂
I remember when I thought Moody Blue was good stuff. Of course I was about 15 years old and it cost under $3.
cat pee wine ????
Haven’t seen that one .
I did buy ‘Fat Bastard’ just because of the name .
Doesn’t it usually say that stuff on the bottle too?
My best friend’s step dad brought her back a bottle of wine from a trip – it was called bitch. Ha ha. Ruuuuude. But it was funny.
I then bought him jackass wine as a rebuttal. 😀
You could always ask one of those fragrant, unwashed, sommeliers on SGR for a personal recommendation, although they tend to go for the screw cap, comes in a brown paper bag, vintage 10 minutes ago pony piss that goes well with lysol and a donair from the garbage can type of plonk.
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The descriptions are BULLSHIT anyways. The one for the bottle of dark 151 rum suggests drinking it on the rocks or neat. Ya, sounds like a pukey good time NSLC.
OP, did you ask any of the liquor store staff…..most stores have one staff member who was trained about wines, etc. Don’t ask the cashiers…..they know don’t shit. Start attending the Port of Wines festivals held every year, or some of the events hosted by select organizatons in Nova Scotia. Every year we’re given tickets to join the Winemaker’s Dinner and tickets to the following evenings. Otherwise, you’lll continue to pick out random swill from the stores. The one tip you’ll learn is that the only good wine are the ones you like. Now go get her drunk, fuck her silly, and wait 9 months.
If you want a real wine experience the choice of BC winos is the one and only Lonesome Charlie. I tried to find a pic to no avail. Martyn is it still out there?
Sir Winesalot – baby got bach Wine?
man that sucked, anyone got a better one?
this is all i could find timothy http://forum.daz3d.com/postimages/origimag…
In the 70’s the parents drank this:
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and this:
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I’m waiting to read in the New England Journal of Medicine about a link to senile dementia >; )
(Props to the folks for being good sports – not that they know about this)
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