Bizaare wine names!

David · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 5:58 pm Post subject: Bizaare wine names!

While wandering around Barbara's excellent website I noticed an entry about "whacky wine names", Barbara was commenting on a bottle of Red Rock Underarm!!

Anyway our provincial liquor board has recently purchased 1/3 of South Africa's Fairview Wineries output of "Goats Do Roam In Villages-2003". Sounds whacky but the Wine Spectator graded it at 90, and at a Canadian price of 14.95 that sounds like good value! Dick will be hunting a bottle down this very afternoon for Sunday dinner!
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Barbara · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:35 am Post subject:

David I recognised the name Goats that Roam and remembered someone had reviewd them for the Wacky named Wines Blog event. You can read the review here.
http://cooksister.typepad.com/cook_sister/2005/01/wwbw5_fairviews.html

Thankyou for your kind comments. I hope you will come back and visit again.
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David · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:25 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the link Barbara--fascinating reading. And we did find and did try Goats Do Roam and quite enjoyed it!
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Erin · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:46 pm Post subject:

Fat Bastard always gives me a chuckle.
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David · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:31 pm Post subject:

And to think for years I mentally pronounced that Fa' Ba'tar'
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Erin · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 7:23 pm Post subject:

My mom always told me to keep my mind out of the gutter. Now look at me.
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Tammy · Joined: 26 Feb 2005 Posts: 27 Location: Toronto, Canada

A friend of mine once brought something called Cat's Pee on a Gooseberry Bush Sauvignon Blanc to a dinner party. It was one of the most vile wines I'd ever tasted. Apparently it comes from a vineyard in New Zealand called Cooper's Creek. Cute bottle but that's about it.

Madame M. · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:57 pm Post subject:

I like the names of wines from Bonny Doon Vineyards in California. My latest giggle was over a luscious dessert wine called "Bouteille Call." But for short it is referred to by the distributor as "Booty Call." Embarassed

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cigalechanta · Joined: 27 Dec 2004 Posts: 200 Location: cambridge, ma.

Ravishing redhead.
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David · Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:47 pm Post subject:

Ohmigod, where was that from??
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cigalechanta · Joined: 27 Dec 2004 Posts: 200 Location: cambridge, ma.

It's a French Merlot that someone brought to me(I have red hair)
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David · Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject:

How wonderful of them!!
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cigalechanta · Joined: 27 Dec 2004 Posts: 200 Location: cambridge, ma.

My first unusual merlot was called, "Marilyn Merlot."
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Judy · Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 6:30 am Post subject:

Who Cares?

No, I'm not being insensitive, it's a brand that belongs to Geoff Merrill.

Probably one of the few bottles of wine I bought purely for the name.

JustMe · Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 213 Location: Ontario, Canada