So yesterday I head down the mountain to my local package store (Billy-Bob’s Budweiser-O-Rama!!) to look for a crisp, yet presumptuous wine to serve with hamhocks and greens, and stumble over the following in the wine department, almost hidden by the racks of MD 20/20 and Strawberry Hill:
and if that weren’t enough:
After I’d cleaned up the broken glass, I read the labels and discovered that these wines both purport to be drinkable, so I bought some… I’ll let the Fat Bastard get a little fatter, and the Old Fart grow a little older, and then we’ll see.
Yes, I’ve seen them both in our local purveyor of boozery. I understand them to be decent which is good enough for me since I’m pretty much a cheapo when it comes to wine. (I avoid the boxed type however.)
I have not tried either of those, as I am more likely to be swayed by a beautiful label, or exotic country of origin. Typical dame buying wine.
That is too funny!!! I have never heard of either and I would have been sorely tempted to buy some, except I have a husband who is a tremendous wine snob. He only drinks the best, that is at a cheap price. :roll: Talk about champagne taste with a beer budget I have to admit that he usually chooses well, though. I usually like what he brings home.
You’ll have to tell us how it is, Scottie…after of course one gets fatter and the other gets older
In 2001 Vineyard and Winery Managment did an article on Armida Winery in California. I remember this because of the unusual packaging that they developed for a zinfandel of theirs. It was named-
Poizin- the bottle was black with a blood red skull and crossbones on the bottle. Then as the final touch, it was boxed in a coffin shaped box.
These sold like hotcakes at $60 a bottle.
I just checked their webpage to see if they had it pictured. No picture, but I did notice they now have one named “Antidote”. And their most expensive bottle on their present wine list on line is $30. Packaging does sell.
This same winery also sold a wine named La Femme Mystique that featured an etched upper nude female. They definately had problems with that one but eventually did get approval to sell it only in CA.
I am sometimes amazed that some of these wine names can get ATF and state approval. Having been there, done that , I can tell you there is no red tape pickier than the ATF and wine labels.
Here’s the label I designed of our best seller.we actually sold out of it in a week! The actual scan of the real label did not turn out well- the white on the picture below is really silver on the real label. The bottle was a 375 cobalt blue. It really was pretty.
That is too funny!!! I have never heard of either and I would have been sorely tempted to buy some, except I have a husband who is a tremendous wine snob. He only drinks the best, that is at a cheap price. :roll: Talk about champagne taste with a beer budget 
I have to admit that he usually chooses well, though. I usually like what he brings home.