No, subby. The greatest idea is a hotel with red and white wine taps right in the room.

oldebayer: No, subby. The greatest idea is a hotel with red and white wine taps right in the room. right into my mouth

FTFY

Tatsuma: The greatest wine-related invention is "wine in a can".

Fact.

This. I think it's brilliant. I mean I'm active, I'm gesturing with my hands, and I don't feel restricted.

Whatever.

That sounds nice...but the greatest vending machine?? I don't know...we have bait vending machines here and that's pretty neat. You never know when you will need a night crawler on the go.

"Take away that old wine and get me the freshest you have!"

My brother got me a bottle of Night Train when I was a younger teen as a joke to see if I would get drunk or sick from it. ohh I did, it tasted like cough syrup. It was around the time G'n'R's Appetite for Destruction album was hot. From that point on the song "I'm on a Night Train" had a much different meaning to me.
/i'm thinking the caliber of wine from these vending machines will be similar to NT.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat [TotalFark] Quote 2010-06-29 12:47:11 PM
I don't think I can think of a better idea except, I don't know, perhaps SELLING WINE IN THE FARKING GROCERY STORE!

Freaking THIS!

Don't give me that crap about killing independent liquor stores. The liquor store I go to sells thousands of different kinds of wine, as well as the hard stuff. The grocery store (or Walmart) will have a token selection.

Tatsuma: The greatest wine-related invention is "wine in a can".

Fact.



Approves

Approves.

Show us your Marx: Tatsuma: The greatest wine-related invention is "wine in a can".

Fact.



Approves

Well I failed but it was a clever reference to It's Always Sunny that m1ke beat me too. Carry on.

old news:



There's a wine bar around here that uses these taps. I don't like 'em. Had a Chateau Neuf du Pape that had turned for the worse. Very neat idea, but I can't trust the systems yet. The whole 'inert gas'-nitrogen-whatever effects the test, I don't care what the scientists say.

The scientists behind wine taps are probably the same guys who said gas grills taste identical to charcoal

All2morrowsparTs: "Take away that old wine and get me the freshest you have!"

With one of those little umbrellas.

All2morrowsparTs: "Take away that old wine and get me the freshest you have!"

Ahh, I lose

LeroyBourne: My brother got me a bottle of Night Train when I was a younger teen as a joke to see if I would get drunk or sick from it. ohh I did, it tasted like cough syrup. It was around the time G'n'R's Appetite for Destruction album was hot. From that point on the song "I'm on a Night Train" had a much different meaning to me.
/i'm thinking the caliber of wine from these vending machines will be similar to NT.

At least it won't be the cheap shiat so that's a good thing.

The_Sponge: With wine in a vending machine, the first vino I thought of was Carlo Rossi's dago red, or one of the other God-awful wines they produce Madd Dogg 20/20.

Kinda what I was thinking.

bighairyguy

Go to a Wegman's in Virginia sometime. It's freakin' everywhere in the store.

/And that's a good thing

But somehow, Wegmans just didn't have enough pull to get it through here in NY.

/And that's a bad thing :(

Wake me up when they set up a Scotch vending machine.

////Just finished a bottle of 16 yo Lagavulin last night....sad...

pute kisses like a man: old news:



There's a wine bar around here that uses these taps. I don't like 'em. Had a Chateau Neuf du Pape that had turned for the worse. Very neat idea, but I can't trust the systems yet. The whole 'inert gas'-nitrogen-whatever effects the test, I don't care what the scientists say.

The scientists behind wine taps are probably the same guys who said gas grills taste identical to charcoal

A good scientist will tell you that the inert gas does affect the wine, for the following reason: Even though the gas itself is inert, its purity also makes it devoid of any of the wine's aromatic compounds. The aromatics will evaporate from the wine at a high rate until equilibrium is achieved (depending on each compound's vapor pressure), but the injection of new inert gas upsets this. What you end up with, towards the end of the bottle, is wine that lacks most of its esters and flavor notes because all of them have diffused out into the inert gas.

What you may not understand is that here in Pennsylvania, where we're currently testing these things, you can not buy wine -- or any other form of alcohol -- at the supermarket. For that matter, you can't buy it at convenience stores or even a liquor store.

That's right -- you can't buy liquor at a liquor store.

Why? Because the state owns all the liquor stores, and they're not liquor stores. They're State Stores. You buy your wine from the state or directly from a winery. Our Liquor Control Board constantly says that this system prevents minors from consuming alcohol. I am not kidding.

By the way -- in our state, these kiosks shut down during the hours in which the state stores are closed. You can't buy wine at 10:30pm on a Thursday night, or 6pm on a Sunday.

I'd like to see some fancier straws for those of us who like sipping a nice glass now and then. Right now I just use generic plastic ones since they really don't make any that cater to the upper class. The cheap look of the straw really looks tacky when I'm entertaining.

floor9: What you may not understand is that here in Pennsylvania, where we're currently testing these things, you can not buy wine -- or any other form of alcohol -- at the supermarket. For that matter, you can't buy it at convenience stores or even a liquor store.

That's right -- you can't buy liquor at a liquor store.

Why? Because the state owns all the liquor stores, and they're not liquor stores. They're State Stores. You buy your wine from the state or directly from a winery. Our Liquor Control Board constantly says that this system prevents minors from consuming alcohol. I am not kidding.

By the way -- in our state, these kiosks shut down during the hours in which the state stores are closed. You can't buy wine at 10:30pm on a Thursday night, or 6pm on a Sunday.

Yarg, that's even worse than Ontario - Ontario runs the LCBO (the provincial liquor monopoly) which seem similar to your state stores, but they at least let grocery stores sell wine (although grocery stores do have a crappy selection). Beer is sold at the beer store (run by the brewers association), so you can get beer outside of the LCBO too... but all other drinks are LCBO-only (including strong beers).

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: I don't think I can think of a better idea except, I don't know, perhaps SELLING WINE IN THE FARKING GROCERY STORE!

Where do you live that this is disallowed?

Honest question, I really don't get out much.

Action Seal: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: I don't think I can think of a better idea except, I don't know, perhaps SELLING WINE IN THE FARKING GROCERY STORE!

Where do you live that this is disallowed?

Honest question, I really don't get out much.

No wine in grocery stores in TN. Not yet.

/just sayin'

floor9: What you may not understand is that here in Pennsylvania, where we're currently testing these things, you can not buy wine -- or any other form of alcohol -- at the supermarket. For that matter, you can't buy it at convenience stores or even a liquor store.

That's right -- you can't buy liquor at a liquor store.

Why? Because the state owns all the liquor stores, and they're not liquor stores. They're State Stores. You buy your wine from the state or directly from a winery. Our Liquor Control Board constantly says that this system prevents minors from consuming alcohol. I am not kidding.

By the way -- in our state, these kiosks shut down during the hours in which the state stores are closed. You can't buy wine at 10:30pm on a Thursday night, or 6pm on a Sunday.

Makes me glad to be in St. Louis where the presence of AB assured that our state would have the loosest liquor laws in the nation, next to Nevada.

Action Seal

Also New York. They were working on it a few months back, but it fell apart. I guess they were too busy NOT coming up with a passable budget to be bothered with other legislation.

I don't know anything about wine, but I can't see how this can work properly, especially with the hoity-toity varieties they apparently dispense. $50 for a glass of wine, from a bottle that was opened when, last week? Last month? Do enough people drop $50 on a glass of wine that you can be assured there's a new bottle in there when you get yours? Or does it even matter? I thought once you opened a bottle of wine and recork it you should finish it soon, like within a couple days. Or is that not so?

Liliac_Hill: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat [TotalFark] Quote 2010-06-29 12:47:11 PM
I don't think I can think of a better idea except, I don't know, perhaps SELLING WINE IN THE FARKING GROCERY STORE!

Freaking THIS!

Don't give me that crap about killing independent liquor stores. The liquor store I go to sells thousands of different kinds of wine, as well as the hard stuff. The grocery store (or Walmart) will have a token selection.

No kidding. And they're worried about losing sales--their image is protected by the notion that a "real liquor store" would have "real stuff" vs Wal-Mart & their "hobo juice".

Action Seal: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: I don't think I can think of a better idea except, I don't know, perhaps SELLING WINE IN THE FARKING GROCERY STORE!

Where do you live that this is disallowed?

Honest question, I really don't get out much.

In Massachusetts you can't get wine or beer in grocery stores or convenience stores for the most part. There are a couple of exceptions, certain chains can have only a small amountoff beer & wine licenses (I think around 3?) that they can use in the entire state. Got to go to a liquor store (though privately run, unlike some other states we are talking about here) for any alcohol.

/PA sounds retarded though, my GF is moving to Philly for school so I will get my first experience up there this fall.

Detinwolf: Makes me glad to be in St. Louis where the presence of AB assured that our state would have the loosest liquor laws in the nation, next to Nevada.

living in New Orleans, I always thought we had some of the loosest liquor laws. Having a 24-hour store that sells liquor ain't all that bad. Not to mention having bars that don't have front doors. (I've always thought that a bar without a front door is more impressive than a bar that is open 24 hours; especially during hurricane times)

pute kisses like a man: Detinwolf: Makes me glad to be in St. Louis where the presence of AB assured that our state would have the loosest liquor laws in the nation, next to Nevada.

living in New Orleans, I always thought we had some of the loosest liquor laws. Having a 24-hour store that sells liquor ain't all that bad. Not to mention having bars that don't have front doors. (I've always thought that a bar without a front door is more impressive than a bar that is open 24 hours; especially during hurricane times)

I confess, I would like to try a bar without a front door. I'd pretend it's a saloon.

Pair-o-Dice: No wine in grocery stores in TN. Not yet.

/just sayin'

Liliac_Hill: Also New York. They were working on it a few months back, but it fell apart. I guess they were too busy NOT coming up with a passable budget to be bothered with other legislation.

Show us your Marx: In Massachusetts

Boo hiss, that sucks guys. There's wine everywhere in Texas. At the grocery stores, in corner stores, CVS, Walgreens, WalMart...all the finest box wine you can manage to drink straight from the spigot before you gag and have to wipe your chin.

When I visited South Carolina, I noticed all the liquor stores had to include three big dots on their storefront signage, as if to warn unsuspecting consumers that they're wandering into a liquor store. There sure are some goofy laws out there.

'Scuse me, I have to put some Eucerin on my gin blossoms.