Gulps

I've seen other blogs call these "sips". I'm not much of a sipper and I've never really liked the word "quaff" (sounds like you're choking on your wine.) So, these are Gulps.

• A older gentleman came into the tasting room yesterday and bought a bottle of The Spaniard. I asked if he would like a bag for that and he said, "No, just attach a nipple to it and I'm good to go." I won't repeat what his wife said...
• A couple weeks ago the subject of "scratch and sniff" was raised in a couple of blogs (Good Grape, and maybe Winesmith), as a means of conveying the aromas of a wine to a potential buyer - a "shelf sniffer" I suppose you'd have to call it. The only real advantage I could see is that it would get your wine placed on a top shelf - because putting a sniffer on the bottom shelf would be disgusting, and hilarious!
• I am just old enough to remember one of the first mass market applications of scratch and sniff, in Hustler magazine. Use your imagination.....
• I have automatic blog searches set up for "twisted oak". I'm going to start sharing with you those occasional completely off-the-wall hits. I'm not quite sure what to make of this one, but here you go: ode to the oak.
• The Wine Chicks blog (funny and interesting, but I wish they would post more often!) has been educating me on the subtle nuances of Friggin, Freakin, Fricken and Effing. My limited left coast upbringing never exposed me to many of those nuances, but at least I know what a Fricken is:

Comments

[Winesmith]

Fricken...rhymes with chicken.