Turns out they taste pretty great too. Low acid fruit and light chocolate notes for sure. They say milk chocolate, vanilla, dark cherry. I’m not sure I get the vanilla but the other two are pretty spot on. These will eventually get a bean review post too, but that may take me a while.
When I would drink wine more often, I would get my favorite bottle, and then walk around looking at labels, picking something just based on how it looked.
I found a lot of interesting selections that way.
Since we’re going on tangents, I enjoy cannabis and one of my top ways to resupply is asking for the ones with the strangest names. Cheetah Piss stands out to me and also ended up one of my favorite strains
I got one called Pot Roast and it had a meaty aroma just like you opened the lid to a cooking roast. It was weird but very alluring
I love giving budtenders my budget and that request because their eyes always light up and they go hunting excitedly around gathering little jars and tubes in their arms like a witch about to concoct a potion
You said you drink wine so I assume you enjoy smelling them as much as I enjoy smelling the various strains. They’re all unique and have an incredible range of aromas from dirt to citrus, diesel being among my favorite
You probably ended up in the natural wine band wagon by doing this. That’s how I got in. Never to be able to escape anymore :)
My wife has been really into wine lately, which means I have been too, and we’ve been doing that a lot. It’s fun to buy by the bottle.
The best wine is in boxes and they have that shiny pillow inside you can sleep on after.
If you can’t roll up your wine bag at the end of the day, is it even worth drinking, honestly.
I only buy them for the pillows.
Interesting. I always pick the very ugliest most boring wine labels. There is clearly so much attention seeking design on wine labels that is borrowed from the sugar drink industry where it literally doesn’t matter what is in the can because it’s going to have about the same level of sugar that people enjoy as everything else. In sugar drinks you fly or fall based on labeling and marketing. I figure if a wine can survive without any label pandering, there’s at least a decent chance that it’s probably pretty good.
Last time I tried going with ugly labels at total wine I went 0/3. Boring labels are usually OK but I usually scan them with vivino.
Cool labels are usually meh but I found a few that are pretty good and not so expensive
Well just for fun here’s a random very good wine picked from my cellar tracker with a boring ass label. L
Label shopping is a last resort if you end up in a shop with unknowledgable staff. Typically I just name a varietal and a max price point and let a good wine shop employee show me their recommendation. Rarely go wrong with that.
Don’t get distracted by labels. Look for unique PACKAGING. That’s how I found all my favorite wines:
P.S. It’s not the 1800s anymore, they’ve invented boxes by now.
Oooh. Fresh and dry.