Total Dismay

I was reminded of this video while reading a post about etiquette on a wedding ideas blog called Wedding Idea Source. The post advises against drinking too much at wedding receptions.

The lady singing the duet in this video is Kathleen Edwards. I had an awkward moment standing beside her down at the Khyber many years ago. She’s the kind of woman that attracts me against my better judgement. The manager had been comping all the performers with Jagermeister shots from his fancy new sub zero dispenser and she was quite tipsy. When we made eye contact I got the impression that she was worried that I would say something lame and that she was too impaired to be gracious in that way that minor celebrities usually are when dealing with that crap. I said nothing and I felt appreciated for my silence.

I am going on a holiday in Italy in about a month’s time. I am starting to get excited. I have just been informed that we will be drinking Chianti quite liberally while we are there.

I hope we don’t mess up our palates in such a way that we can no longer make do with our cheap table wine. The fiasco is that bottle that is encased in woven straw. You know, those ones that you dripped melted candle all over when you were in college?

I think a Wine club membership would make a great gift for any of the adults on your Christmas list.

I am a wine drinker. When the evidence of health benefits started mounting a few years ago, we decided that we should make a point of drinking a glass of red wine everyday.

I don’t know if I recommend choosing an everyday wine the way we went about it. We started out with the absolute cheapest table wine available on the local market and worked our way up in price week by week until we found a wine that was acceptable. We had some pretty unappealing wine for the first couple of weeks. Now we have a domestic wine that is perfect with pizza, pasta, meat dishes or even just a snack of bread and cheese. It’s also inexpensive enough to cook with. Most professional chefs will tell you not to cook with ‘cooking wine’. The better the wine is, the better your dinner will be.

AmazingWineClub.com is the #1 Wine of the Month Club out there. I think the flexibility is a major plus. First off, you can decide whether you want them to send red or white or a mix of both. After that, you can choose between four different schedules. Since I already have a stock of everyday wine, I would be pleased to have the Wine of the Season option. That includes 4 different deliveries over the space of a year. The other options are monthly deliveries of different durations.

If you were to receive a vintage that captures you, you have the option of ordering more at a discounted price from Amazing Clubs.