I have this really bad habit of buying bottles of wine (turns out this was the malt liquor of wine) because the label looked cool. Albertson's gives you a 10% discount if you buy 6 bottles at once.
The only time buying wine based on a cool label that ever worked was a brand called Cheap Red Wine, I still have the bottle. One a side note I wasn't buying the wine to impress a date or some company.
As for this mistake, apparently Sideshow No. 4 Puppetmaster or whatever the hell it is consists of a mixture of two other awful tasting wines, syrah and malbec. Apparently I did read the label after all because I wanted to know what the hell was is this concoction. I have come to the conclusion that really good wine comes with generic labeling AND CORKS (and dust on them). Really bad wine comes with a twist top and story on the side of the bottle to make you go, huh I wonder what this tastes like. However from my experiences from drinking beer the cooler the bottle looked the better the beer taste.
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You don't like Syrahs or Malbecs?
I've found the only way to find good wine is to know the varieties you like, and stick solely to them. Sure, there's always a possibility that you'll find a really tasty Merlot or Cabernet, but odds are good that both will taste like ass—even if they're really good Merlots of Cabernets.
P.S. Pinot Noir FTW!!1!
I guess that the rant should have been directed at the 'selection' rather than the actual wine itself. The demographics in this area lends itself to mainly Tequila and Budweiser.
"Officer, that man spilled my Budweiser."
I think you need to go for the cool looking bottle, not the cool looking label.
Speaking of cool-looking bottles, there's a French wine at the local Trader Joe's which features bottles covered in a fine layer of glue and sawdust. It's really cool.
...until throngs of asshatted shoppers all scrape at your bottles wondering what all the dusty stuff is.
I would kill for a Trader Joes, H.E.B., Whole Foods..etc. Belinda and I have La Tienda, Allsups, Walgreens, and Wal-Mart.
WAL-MAAAART!!!!!
But seriously, new horizons and new culture FTW!
Oddly, Whole Foods is the most commercial of them all around here.
If you want ultra-mega-hippie fresh, you need to go to PCC or the farmer's market.
You should be able to spot those twist offs in the store so you dont buy them.
Whole foods in Santa Fe rocks, Whole Foods in Michigan sucks. Trader joes in Michigan is keepin it real tho - Joe's a good guy.
ultra-mega-hippie fresh FTW!
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