Joho the Blog
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March 11, 2005
In the Madrid airport this morning (or was it last night? Hard to get my biological clock rewound), I was aimlessly browsing in the duty-free shop and decided maybe I'd buy a bottle of wine. I sampled a bigger variety of wine in the past two days than I did during my twenties, thirties and half of my forties, and all of it was just delicious. I saw a bottle that looked familiar, and figured if I've had it in Madrid, it must be good. So, for 11 euros (about $14 in real money), I bought the bottle and carried it home. When I finally got back to our house tonight, I realized why the label was familiar. It's the very same bottle of wine I have open in our kitchen. (I go through about a bottle a month.) I had bought it blindly at Trader Joe's...where I paid $9 for it. Posted
by D. Weinberger at March 11, 2005 05:59 PM
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Comments
What? Two buck chuck ain't good enough for you now?
Posted by: Scott D. Feldstein | March 11, 2005 07:03 PM
If you have a camera phone with a bit of memory, you could try and keep a wine diary, by taking photographs of the labels and jotting down (I believe you call it tagging :-)) what you felt about the wine. That way you can learn what's good and what's not.
Posted by: Branko Collin | March 11, 2005 08:29 PM
okay, you actually made me laugh out loud, sitting here doing email triage, listening to (bummer) MSM news, and backgrounding thoughts on the "free"node transcript you posted (thanks!)
-- is that sick-humor LOL? or are you just that good? ;-o
Posted by: mas | March 11, 2005 08:43 PM
hysterical! a similar thing happened to me--we searched high and low in portugal to carry home wine, only to discover the portuguese liquors stores in newark carried better stuff, same price. oh, well.
Posted by: susan mernit | March 11, 2005 10:49 PM
Was it tempranillo?
Posted by: daniel luke | March 12, 2005 01:29 AM
Hey you, don't you ever work?
I'm not critizing you, but the idea of you not breaking a sweat, ever.
Ya play on the computer all day long. This is a poor example to the youths of our nation who might think they can "blog" for a living.
Tante Henny via DH
Posted by: Dan Herzlich | March 12, 2005 04:59 AM
Daniel, yes, the US one has "tempranillo" on the label. I assumed that that meant "Bottled especially for stupid Americans"...
Dan, the question isn't "Don't you ever work?" because I work all the time. The question: "Don't you ever get paid?" The answer to which is: Please?
Posted by: David Weinberger | March 12, 2005 08:19 AM