Sunday, November 25, 2007
what ever you do, do not buy...
...three-buck chuck's new wine. i like the chuck, generally, especially the shiraz. out of the 2-5 bottles of trader joe's wine that make their way into my shopping cart every 2-3 weeks, a couple bottles of chuck are regulars. i was at trader joe's the other day and was lured to the charles shaw display by bottles saying "nouveau." i don't speak french at all (as b knows from when we were in france together), but i assumed that meant this was a new one. i picked up a bottle and saw that it was a "valdiguie" (pronounced "val-de-gay," i later found out). i had no idea what that was but i put it in my basket anyway. yay! a new chuck! i googled (actually blackled) it--not chuck specifically, but valdiguies in general, just to find out what they were--tonight, and all i found was trader joe's on blast all over the internet for this nasty, nasty wine. "no way, these are just snooty wine snobs," i thought, as i opened up my lovely new chuck and poured myself a glass. i put the goblet up to my nose, took a breath, and smelled...grape juice? raspberry cider? what the hell?! then i tasted it, and it's GROSS!!!!!!
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Thanks for the warning -- Chuck and I are old friends so I'll be sure to stay away from this!
And, yes, nouveau means new! I'm drinking a beaujolais nouveau, not because I like it (I don't) but because it's kind of a tradition thing...
what is your beaujolais tradition? and how do you pronounce that? i've always heard "boo-ju-lay" but the other day i heard a bartender say "bow-ju-lay."
I'm not familiar with this particular wine, but "beau" is pronounced "bow" in French.
For example "beaucoup" is correctly pronounced bow-coo NOT boo-coo as some falsely pretentious people may say it.
Yes...just got home from T.J.'s and found this review after I Googled the wine. Indeed, pretty vile and rustic stuff. Not excusable by the defensive descriptors "Old World" or "Earthy". This really is just nasty wine. So bad that a teenager who broke into her absent parents' wine stash could probably not even down it. So bad that you wouldn't even want to cook with it. So bad that the only way that I'm going to be able to drink it is in a spritzer. So bad that, if I wasn't as broke as I am, I'd dump it down the drain.
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