"Stadium and Main"
You and your friends will feel invincible.
Beat me to it.
Tears of Unfathomable Sweetness.
Larry Harrison.
Marcus Ray Game Day Cabernet
Then get one of our resident MSPaint specialists to design you a nice label of Marcus Ray dropping David Boston like a sack of potatoes.
Just "Berenson"
"Greatly Exaggerated if not Flatly Incorrect"
A buddy of mine makes it and offered to walk me thru it.
I think "spookyjuice" would be a spectacular name for a wine (especially a red). I wish I could say it was my own creation, but alas, it was someone's handle @ edsbs before Orson went to sb nation...
Forcier Cabernet
"Yes, Columbus, that rhymes"
"OMG Shirtless"
With a picture of a shirtless muscular grape.
"Andiamo Azzurro"?
last year on a different board in regards to a mead I was brewing. It was going to have blueberries and black rasberries in addition to the honey, so it ended up turning out red. Also, I used a strain of yeast that was going to allow for the EtOH level to get up to 19%.
The response I liked the best was "The Barwis Aftermath." I don't remember who suggested it, as I was drinking too many of my homebrews at that time.
Unfortunately, I screwed up the batch and didn't rerack it soon enough. Ales/meads are top fermenting and with so much fruit on the top, I don't think I gave the yeast a chance to work to it's fullest potential. Result was a nice tasting brew without nearly the alcohol content I was looking for. I feel like I did the name "The Barwis Aftermath" shame, and certainly don't deserve it. I was forced to rename it "Jeremy LeSueur's Facemask Penalty vs FYS, Fuck You Spartan Bob."
With this picture on the bottle:
"Roses"
says it all
The best thing is saving about 12 bottles for Christmas presents. Everyone loves it, and it ends up saving you a bunch of cashola... Here are some ideas -
1. Dilithium
2. Smash n Dash Cabernet
3. Dred Red
4. O let Do it (only if he makes it this year)
5. Fck Sht Up Cab
Spread Red
Verified Voracity
Huskie Blood
MH 20/20
red-emption?
Wolver-Wine?
Change it up a bit. A little more mod, maybe: "Wolver(w)ine."
Are you planning on using a cork (real or synthetic) or screw cap? I read an interesting article in Wine Spectator recently regarding bottle closures. They cited a study that showed screw caps preserved wine much longer than cork, and prevented most spoilage.
I hadn't really ever considered a screw cap a "positive" find on a wine bottle. I'd usually discount (if not outright overlook) any wine that had one, equating it to wine in a box. How wrong I was, apparently.
The screw cap, also known as the Stelvin closure, is the best for a number of reasons.
- Roughly 5-10% of all wine with a real cork is "corked." A corked wine is due to a bacterial growth that releases TCA (trichloroanisole) that contaminates a wine. A corked wine tastes the way wet cardboard smells
- A faulty cork, or a wine that is not properly stored, can easily lose some liquid volume and gain air, thus oxidizing wine, harming its freshness and making it taste of caramel.
- Over time, corks become worse as an enclosure, thus potentially damaging a wine. This is not the case for the Stelvin closure.
If you buy a wine and it tastes corked or oxidized, you can take it back to the merchant you bought it from and either get another bottle or your money back. However, if its an aged wine (over, say, 3 or 4 years old), usually you don't have any recourse.
I have had several bottles of very good red wine, aged in my cellar, that when opened, were so corked that I just poured them down the drain. The Stelvin closure will eliminate most of the waste.
And to me, its all about the wine, not the romanticism regarding the "pop" when the cork is pulled. That lasts a second, the wine, hopefully, a little longer in the glass.
Not that I'm suggesting that you call your wine this, but this thread made me remember the awesomeness that is:
