So, it turns out that the “box of wine in a microwave” is a fake. Bummer.
Still at least we now get an introduction to ‘Microwave specialist’ Jory Caron, from the hit YouTube Series, “Is It A Good Idea To Microwave This?”. Here he displays a CSI like determination to prove why the video is a fake.
Thanks to Ryan O’Connell from Love That Languedoc for the link
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Regular readers of this blog will recall my how utterly distraught I was last summer after accidentally spilling wine of my brand new MacBookPro.
In this video, some muppet decides to deliberately pour a glass of wine AND a glass of lemonade over a laptop keyboard in order to proove that he can get it working again. All this performed to a soundtrack of Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas.
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When Mariah Carey accepted her breakthrough actress award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival recently, is was widely reported that she was ‘off her face’.
Indeed Miss Carey made no attempt to hide inebriation during her bizarre acceptance speech. And why not? If we’re honest, how many of us have been unhinged through the combination of adrenalin, bubbles and the winning of awards?
However, if we are to believe The Wine Spectator, Miss Carey was actually playing a blinding marketing strategy to promote her new champagne brand. According to the revered vinous publication her behaviour:
… kept the news cycle going for a few more days, then [she] took to her Twitter account to announce the 2010 release of her own rosé bubbly, Angel. Newspapers like New York’s Daily News and the UK’s Guardian took that news at face value, with Stuart Heritage of the Guardian going so far as to predict it will “taste like a bottle of sweat that’s had an AA battery dropped in it.” What no one has seemed to notice is that Angel is a 13-year-old brand based in Reims whose bottles have recently begun to appear in popular music videos, including Carey’s—meaning that “her” Champagne brand will likely be little more than a simple licensing deal, á la the hordes of other wines “created” by musicians and bands.
This may well be the case, but I’ve always had a soft spot for the voluptuous Miss Carey and I would happily sip Angel from her Christian Louboutin shoes. Lets take a look at that acceptance speech again shall we?
Posted in WOTW News | Tagged angel champagne, christian louboutin, mariah carey, tmz, wine spectator | 2 Comments »
When I was younger, my mother warned me about putting metal in a microwave. These guys put a large box of wine in their microwave and blew a hole in the wall of their kitchen.
Some people would argue that this is the best possible solution for the problem of boxed wine.
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Wine freezes at about 15 degrees Fahrenheit. But what can you do with the wine once it’s frozen? Well, make a piece of art of course!
This took the artist 7 hours to put together and 1 hour to fall apart, and why he felt compelled to drink the stuff at the end is beyond me.
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Bored with your elegant but purely functional Riedel wine glasses?
Ever wished you could capture your reflection in the glass?
Well, take yourself off to the wonderful world of Etsy and check out FizzyArtist’s wine glass custom cartoons. Based on any photographs you wish to send her. All sold in sets of ten.
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Two girls in bar. Adonis walks in and runs his hand through wavy hair. Predatory blonde approaches man leaving Plain Jane friend to sit on her own…but wait, what’s this? Plain Jane friend leaps to her feet like a gazelle and places herself in front of Wavy hair man. Plain Jane grabs a wine bottle and does something to the bottle that has Wavy Man searching for the number of the nearest rent by the hour hotel.
Oh dear.
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Sarah Palin: MILF or Merlot?
Us Brits used to enjoy the superiority we felt while watching American politics from afar.
The religious fundamentalism, the assertions of manifest destiny, the illicitly stained dresses of interns and mistresses, the militias in the woods shooting defenceless squirrels, the obscene level of corporate influence, the willing delusion to see America as a peaceful nation – all topped off with the American public falling for the promise of “change” every 4 years from whoever was next in line.
And then Britain elected Tony Blair and our superiority was replaced by a realisation that we had become what we had mocked. Ouch.
And so, when it was recently announced that Sarah Palin will speak at this years Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA) convention in Las Vegas I choked on my wine-gums. What if the UK follows the WSWA example and asks Nick Griffin to become keynote speaker at this years London International Wine Fair?
In explaning his choice of Palin as the keynote, the WSWA president (Craig Wolf) said, “Governor Palin is a great supporter of America’s free enterprise system and understands that industries like the beverage alcohol industry play a key role in driving our national economy”.
The irony of this statement is not lost on the readers of Decanter Magazine with this particular contribution summing the situation up nicely,
“Anybody familiar with our 50 state tangle of restrictions on alcohol beverage sales knows that the system is hardly ‘free enterprise,’ and that in many cases the restrictions serve the wholesale tier of the industry quite handily. The WSWA has been very skillful at protecting its interests at both state and federal levels for years, and much of this effort has been devoted to measures that effectively block anything resembling free enterprise”
Although the content of Palin’s speech is not yet known, Mr Wolf gave us this frightening insight , ’We expect she will share with the convention attendees her analysis of the current political environment and her vision for America’s future.’ Why is the WSWA providing a prospective presidential candidate a soapbox in this way? Has Mr Wolf succumbed to a schoolboy crush?
In the 1980’s p*ss poor drummer Phil Collins famously said that he would leave England if Labour came to power*.
If Palin wins the presidential race in 2013, I will leave the universe.
* n 2005 Mr Collins said he may return to Britain if the Tories regain power. Please remember this when you come to vote later this year.
See also: Sarah Palin Guilty – It’s Just Not Hockey Mum
Posted in But Seriously... | Tagged christian right, craig wolf, decanter, nick griffin, sarah palin, wine events, wswa | Leave a Comment »
I imagine the thought process went something like this:
Wino 1: ‘I was in the White Burgundy section of Oddbins yesterday and I really found the wine labels puzzling”
Wino 2: ‘Yes they can be difficult to decipher. By the way, I was doing this word puzzle on the train this morning and couldn’t find the last word. Can you see it?
Wino 1: ‘Let me have a look…. wait, you’re doing a puzzle, I find wine labels puzzling… so lets design a wine label that actually IS a puzzle!’
And so Puzzle Time Wine was born to add a new dimension to our drinking experience. Below is a word search and a rebus. Enjoy.
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"It's wine Jim but not as we know it"
Victoria Moore starts the New Year with a cracking article in The Guardian entitled “Wine: Five Golden Rules for the Supermarket”.
Here’s Victoria’s five with an extra one from WOTW for good measure:
) Never risk a bottle with a bird, insect or animal on the label. This will keep you mercifully clear of Yellow Tail cabernet sauvignon, Little Penguin wines and many others.
2) Be wary of bottles bearing the tiny words “Imported by Constellation Europe Ltd” on the back label. Their wines include the execrable Banrock Station, Stowells and the almost always deadly dull and overpriced Hardys.
3) Avoid bottles sold at “half-price” – the lure of such wines is only ever supposed to be their promotion excitement. It’s never good when taste is secondary, or even tertiary.
4) Avoid rioja, chablis and sancerre. A simple tempranillo, white vin de pays or sauvignon de Touraine is likely to prove better value.
5) Avoid ginormous bottles – desperation to impress is best expressed through the wine, not the size of the glass.
and from me:
6) If you can possibly help it, simply don’t buy wine from Supermarkets at all. Support your independent store where you can and if you don’t have a decent one then always choose the Co-Op or Waitrose over Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s.
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WOTW is a self confessed wine twit. The man behind The Wine Society's website he's also consulted with Laithwaites, Tesco, First Quench and Naked Wines. He writes for Classic Wine Direct and drinks copious amounts of Tokaji.
