Both are these from What a World!

I just got this one from Mark Fisher who blogs wine over at Dayton Daily News. Then I got two more emails about the same topic. While this might be the lastest sex toy amongst the Sideways crowd, I wonder if this is the answer for bringing my wine on board?

The point is the inflatable device INSIDE the bra, and then one sips out the wine from a straw. What will they think of next.

Check Mark's blog for his take on this breaking news.

Then minutes after I got an email from a California wine store. One of the greatest things about this blog is how many great people I've met because of it.
This particular gent often regales me hysterical stories about his customers.

This is a bit from his latest. He just went through the store trying to find a $10 chardonnay for this customer. Nothing was big and buttery enough. She was trying to let him down easy.

....With respect to the party, however, I am concerned that the wines we tasted and that I brought and took home to sample are simply a bit too nuanced for my crowd. I need to make sure that both the food and the wines are enjoyed not only by the experienced tasters, but by all 100+ people, who may not have had that much exposure to world wines.

With that in mind, regretfully, I have decided to limit my wines to more traditional mass market-approved labels. Please, I hope you understand and that this is not a problem........

Is something in retrogade? It is a full moon out?

"traditional mass market-approved labels."

Huh?

He's an evangelist. He wanted them to have great wine at the party. Voicing his frustration to me he further wrote:

Sometimes people who live in some fancy places pay a ton of money for housing, fancy cars, etc. The wine is not sufficiently "important" to them to pay an honest dollar. They want "fancy" and fashionable labels and so they might spend money for wines such as Far Niente and Cakebread and other wineries who have the "why pay less?" marketing/pricing strategy. They want their guests, whose tastebuds they may under-estimate, to KNOW they spent a dollar on a bottle of wine.

The fact that they're pouring a killer wine for small money is not possible because "my guests won't know this label and recognize it as a good wine."

Probably he'll go to Costco.
He'll probably buy something such as a KJ or La Crema wine.
Those taste like Chalk Hill, don't they?

;)

Or maybe he'll come up with a fine bottle of BV "Coastal".

It's a sick world.

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