Wine or Water?

My mother sends me jokes over the internet once in a while and this one made me smile:

As Ben Franklin said: In wine there is wisdom,
in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.

In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. coli) - bacteria found in feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop.

However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine & beer (or tequila, rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.

Remember:
Water = Poop,
Wine = Health

Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of shit.

2005 Columbia Crest Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve is Still #1 in My Book

This month the Roanoke Fine Wine Society sat down to taste 10 of Wine Spectators Top 100 wines of 2009.

There were a lot of great wines on the table including the group favorite, a 2007 Two Hands Bella’s Garden Shiraz, but the wine that most impressed me was the 2005 Columbia Crest Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve.

On the nose it was yeasty with lots of black cherry and spice. On the palate it offered up coffee, leather, vanilla and charred oak and some gripping tannins that carried though to a 30 + second finish. It’s a monster of a wine sure to have a few more good years.

A whopping 5,000 cases of this wine were offered up for sale but the supply is quickly dwindling. At release a bottle of this juice could be had for around $27.00. Now you’re lucky to find it on-line for under $90.

How’s that for wine appreciation?