Friday, March 13, 2015

¡BATTLE OF THE GAS STATION WINES! Parte Quatro: BAY BRIDGE MERLOT:

Addendum--Anybody know who makes this?  I mean, like, I know it's Bay Bridge Vineyards, but who is the "macro" company that owns it?  Then Internet says "Bronco Wines," But I talked to Joe, one of the head guys, and he says NO!!!

Well, good job, Huge Oligopolistic Agribusiness Conglomerate--whoever you are...I MEAN that!  This wine ROCKS, when price/availability handicapped...GS...

Purchased at:  Kwik Shop/Shell/20th & 56th, Lincoln.

Price:  $4.39.

Maker:  Bay Bridge Vineyards.

Location:  Livermore & Ripon, California.

Varietal: Merlot.

Vintage: Not Listed***.

Wrapper:  Foil.

Cork:  Yes, synthetic.

Tannins: Moderate.

Quaffability:  Very Good.

Halo: Narrow.

Color: Violet.

Notes:  Blackberry jam, strawberry, Goofy Grape, light plum.

Oak: Whatever.

Alcohol: 12.5%.

Viscosity:  Some sheets; might have been the glass that I stole from the restaurant across the street.  When was the last time they changed the sterilizer in the dish machine.  Get on it, Ahkmed!!!

  Transparency under sunlight.  Going with LOW VISCOSITY.

Buy your own bottle, already.  It was $4.39!!!  I gave the change from the fin I spent to the guy in the parking lot.  He promised to spend it on food...

Comments:  It costs half of minimum wage in this state, and you don't grow a third eyeball drinkin' it.  Wanna hear about some of the stuff we drank on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, ya little punk???

Seriously, this was an incredible value. 

This series on the gas station wines...Can I level with you, here??  We're buds, right???  I'm not sure I can ever work in a restaurant again...Even a Mexican restaurant with the homemade Sangria...Why not just buy wine from a gas station and order some Chinese delivery???  Would you be regretting that decision THAT MUCH on your death bed???  not quite up there with, "Not buyin' Xerox stock in 1962," ne c'est pas???

Note:  If a woman breaks up with you for presenting any of these wines...she was not THE ONE, Muchacho...

BOTTOM LINE:  Four and a half hammers:






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