Wine of the Week

2009 J Vineyards Pinot Gris

89 Points

Outstanding California Pinot Gris from J Vineyards with lush tropical fruit aromas.  The fruit is bright and clean in the glass with crisp flavors of pear, lychee and lemon.  Feel in the mouth is full despite the stainless steel fermentation.  This is a perfectly balanced wine with a finish that leaves your mouth calling for more.  Make room on the holiday table for this wine!  Perfect with citrus salad, turkey and creamy chicken with rice.


Rated and reviewed on 11/13/2010 by BS

Suggested retail price between $13.99 - $14.99

Wine of the Week

2009 Diseno Malbec

87 Points

New label and vintage from Diseno prove to be an incredible value!  Deep ruby in color with bright fruit on the nose with notes of blueberry and dried tart cherries.  Flavors of spice, coffee and chocolate combine with a velvety tannin structure to yield a smooth and well balanced Malbec.  Enjoy now with roast beef, burgers, pizza and chocolate.

Rated and reviewed on 11/05/2010 by BS

Suggested retail price between $9.99 - $10.99

Reality Television, Video Games and Funnel Cakes...

What the hell is happening out there.  Society has truly become a shell of it's former self as it embraces television shows that promote stupidity, drunken debauchery and sexual promiscuity.  There are too many shows to name, but here are a few:  Jersey Shore (Drunken Idiots of New Jersey In Miami), My Super Sweet 16 (Teenagers Who Live Off Parents All The Way To Rehab), Kate + Eight (Nike of Television Using Young Children For Profit), The Girls Next Door (Women Living Off 80 Year Old Man Until Richer 60 Year Old Comes Along), and of course my favorite The Real World (Eight Strangers Picked To Live in a House and Give Each Other STD's While Pretending To Work a Job)!  Is this seriously what I have to choose from on television?  Don't get me wrong, I have my reality television vices too, but these shows are dumbing down society as well as creating a generation of zero work ethic Paris Hilton wannabes!  People who think they can find fame and money by getting wasted, having a nipple slip, and putting a full length feature sex tape out for all to enjoy.  I think these individual's parents should be ashamed and even more so... disappointed!  Please if you have children and they look up to any of these reality stars, put an end to it early.  Before your daughters get all kinds of plastic implants and your sons name their abs "The Situation"!  Otherwise they might end up on my reality show "Dignity and Self Respect Featuring Chuck Norris Discipline Techniques"!

Another form of entertainment are the ultra-unrealistic video games.  Sure they look real enough with their superb graphics and life like movement, but lets be realistic.  These video games are now more mature than the shows on Cinemax I used to watch while pretending to do homework!  Games today contain blood, violence, gangs, drug use, sex, nudity and swearing.  Not to mention a few more inappropriate things as well.  Now don't get me wrong, I play a few of these games myself, but I consider myself to be mature enough to handle it.  Children playing these games expose themselves to these mature situations and develop a desensitization to it.  They accept these behaviors when seen in daily life and just assume it is the norm!  I am waiting for the day when a Target or Game Stop employee actually cards someone trying to buy an adult themed video game and refuses to sell to them.  But then who am I kidding, if that ever happened they would just get their parents to buy it for them!

Wow, I have now worked up an appetite for some funnel cake.  Maybe I have time to make one before ...  Oh wait, it's almost time for the Keeping Up With Kardashians season finale!  Gotta go!