#jug wine

[coweatman]

Thackeray’s Victim’s.  Fume House NJ.  New Year’s Eve 2005/2006.

35mm through an AE1.

[gojiro]

I just remembered that i have an opened jug of bottom-shelf wine in the fridge - it’s been in there for about two weeks, I wonder if it’s still good

[imageafterparty]

[winningwithwine]

I spotted a couple of customers looking at the Geriatrics Aisle: Wine coolers, boxed wine, Arbor Mist, cheap jug wine and the like. One of them came up to me.

Customer: I got a question for you. I see all these wines that are pear and peach and cherry flavored. How come there’s never any grape flavored wine?

Me for three hours: …

[microscopicblab]

AFTER THE FAMILY

An older version does an impression of a younger version of me in an acid green woman's blouse and my dad's boxer shorts

pours chardonnay from a jug into a red plastic cup sits on a lawn chair in the carport sip-summoning calm before dusk wonders what happened mind on the wind

what happened? 

[vintagetroy]

What have you been drinking lately?

I consider myself an avid fan of wine.  I work in the restaurant world and everyday I get ask hundreds of questions that run the gamit from how's the soup to what should I drink with my meal.  Most of these questions are fairly simple to answer and I respond with a smile and move on.  There is one inquiry that always stops me dead in my tracks,  "what have you been drinking lately?"  Then the silence becomes deafening.

So why is a fairy boring and simple question such a stumper?  Why does it turn me from an educated and charming ;) person into a bumbling idiot?  I cannot for the life of me figure out the proper response.  

I think the issue lies not in the depths of my soul or my palate.  I think the matter at hand stems from the person asking the question.  A million different things flash through my mind.  What is this person drinking,  what will they think if I say White Zinfandel just to get a laugh?  Do they know what Cote Rotie is?  Can I really explain that even though they refuse to drink Merlot, their preciuos Bordeaux contains that "dreaded" varietal?

Sadly I resign myself to answering vaguely and look at them and say, "a lot of stuff similar to what you have in your glass".  Then I take a look down and notice the bottle of Carlo Rossi!  Arrivederci to all self respect and any credibilty I might have had prior to this little interlude.  

So friends, what have you been drinking?  Really.....would you like to join me for a glass of jug Burgundy?  I hear it ages slower in the 4L format.  Cheers!