Spiral Wines Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2010

Wilco's "Sky Blue Sky" and a day off from work.  We'll see....

Earlier today my wife told me that there is a shortage of grapes this year.  This means that prices are certain to go up, at least for the bottles of wine under $15.  So cheap wines will start to be less so.

Last year this bottle was recognized by a cashier as being the best bottle at Trader Joe's for under $5.  I would try to persuade my wife to purchase many pallets of the stuff and then hold on and hope for the best when the market really turns, but I don't think she'd go for it.  She has other plans cooking for our future.

I've wasted $5 in far worse ways, and often.

The other night I had to drive into SF for work and when I was parking my car on O'Farrell, in the "tenderloin," as I began to pull myself together and collect my stuff to get out of the car, I watched a crack deal occur just outside my window.  Two men were talking and one held some money clenched tightly in one hand and another held his hand open, and there in his hand, not even in a plastic bag, were two small crack rocks.  The one with the cash looked at them suspiciously then held his hand out, the other held his hand out for the money.  These guys clearly didn't know each other well, or perhaps knew each other all too well.  Watching made me move my car to a parking garage.  It also made me want to smoke crack, but not as much as wanting to move the car.  First things first, etc.

But this isn't a crack-blog, it's a wine blog.

This wine is Spiral Tap.  I've tried to evaluate wines in the way that I know how, the time that it takes me to drink each bottle.  But I'm beginning to see cracks in that rating system as well.

I've moved on from Wilco. I won't tell you what's next, many people have a strong aversion to this particular artist.  I think he's a great songwriter.  If he were a woman then people would be falling over themselves to place her on the fast track sainthood, even before old Moth Teresa, a woman with a poverty fetish, who never wrote any cool songs that I know of.

Fuck the Pope.

Ok, I don't know where all of this negative anti-communion energy is coming from. When we were kids we all did a priest or two.  Jesus, we were tough, there was one priest we used to gang-bang every now and then, never on Sunday.  It was no big deal, we were just using him to get to God, and the wine.



"But I believe this - and it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns will later join the church."

-Strummer/Jones, "Death or Glory"

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