Well, it was bound to happen. Rain crashing down all over the Trader Joe's parade of good stuff. First a walnut recall, now wine has been targeted in a California lawsuit. I would say it is a plot by places like Wal-Mart (my loathing of that place has no bounds), but poison is poison and has no place in wine, at any price, if the allegations hold up.
The Left-Side and I are huge fans of Trader Joe's, but we typically partake in their food items. No nuts, and very few bottles of their wine, thank you.
Not that we are opposed to cheap, sweet nectar, sealed securely under a cheap cork or screw-cap.
But, wine is usually something we pull from the cheap shelves of Total Wine. Finding great buys (sometimes swill) is our version of a fabulous treasure hunt.
However, this current dust-up over potentially harmful substances being crushed into adult grape beverages, and passed out as cheap-fun wine, gives me pause.
First, this is one excellent reason to ALWAYS have champagne with your meals. It is ALWAYS the perfect wine choice (check with Food and Wine hacks if you doubt this factoid), for any meal or occasion. Personally, sipping Veuve Clicquot is my version of paradise, but other bubbles also find their way into my flute.
Second, just say it with vodka. I mean with a vodka-infused martini, one never has to worry about poison. Well, some vodka could be considered poison, but you Clash 'n Dashers know the good stuff from the rot!
Martini shaking is simply fabulous, even if you go old-school and use gin (we don't). Nick and Nora Charles may be fictional, but this video montage of cocktails contains not a single glass of wine.
Whether this is a major plot to get wine-sippers to unleash some major cash, or a real threat all corked up...who knows.
We will continue to shop at TJ's, make classic cocktails and watch classic films. It's classic.
Gotta dash...
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Left-Side, checking in. It's definitely shaken, not stirred, around our pad in the classic Nick Charles fashion. On the rocks or off, Right-Side bravely samples the latest creation from the mad mixologist of North Palm Beach, otherwise known as yours truly. As Tyler Fitzgerald (Jim Backus) says in "Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World": "It's the only way to fly."
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