Other than a few excursions into oblivion in the frozen wastelands of
> Bavaria with a canteen cup full of Mad dog 20 20 a third of a century ago
> I don't know jak about wine.
> My wife the health freek, who has never drank anything, read something
> about drinking a glass of wine each day has some health benefits so she
> wanted get some.
> Did I mention she's also a penny pincher?
> She got a bottle and we sat on the porch this evening and we each had a
> chilled glass.
> Well, I had 2.
> We were fooling around and started doing that stuff we seen on TV where
> you swirl it around in the glass (we were using standard kitchen glasses
> cause we don't have any real wine glasses) and sniff the bowkay. Then we
> dumped it in our caves and rolled it all over the place before down the > hatch.
>
> When I first smelled the stuff I almost hurled, smelled like
> poison....cept worse.
> Then amazingly, after swishing it around in my cave the smell disappeared. > WTF?
> I stuck my snoot right down in the stuff and it smelled like fruits. > OMG.
> One swallow and I suddenly liked the stuff and 30+ years of loathing > vanished.
> We put the stuff back in the frig and went about our business.
> Tomorrow we'll break it out again.
>
> There's lots of wine tasting places around here and we talked about going
> to some.
>
> Anyway, this is what we imbibed upon.
> Cheap, tasted pretty good, and if 2 half-glasses is any indication, for
> less than $10 a stupor could occur.
>
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Exotic Fruits White Zinfandel... talk about hurling...