I just realized it’s "barrel tasting" week here in wine country. It’s where a bunch of tourists and locals alike come and get completely wasted all under the pretense of wine tasting. They buy a pass that gives them access to literally 100s of wineries.

I have been one of said people.

In fact this is just the start of the many festivals and festivities that plague this area. Fun fun fun- and it almost always involves good wine. Wine has been my biggest drug of choice in this mess of a life I’ve created with alcohol.

And so I thought maybe we could wax philosophically about the lame side of wine. Anything and everything you can think of, ranging from the taste of it, down to the snobby pretentious crap everyone says about it. Have at it. I really need to start re-framing how I see alcohol and especially wine- so anything you can think of will be of great help.

I will go first….

Wine is nothing more than rotten fruit mixed with yeast feces.