256 Bottled Wine
Hot diggity! Elisa here to upload today’s comic.
I’ve never understood the complexities of a fine wine, so I’m totally in Kate’s corner on this one. Fancy wines, craft beers – if it tastes good when you’re drinking it then I say it’s a good wine, beer, whiskey, what-have-you.
Really, as an artist, I guess I should care a bit more than just red or white wine. I suppose all wines are not created equal.
One does not simply call rose, scarlet, flame, candy apple, cherry, or garnet all just “RED.”
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KATE
We're out of boxed wine. Can I drink this one?
CRAIG
No, that one is expensive and for guests.
KATE
How much does this one cost?
CRAIG
That is a sipping wine, not a gulping wine.
KATE
One does not simple sip at wine!
CRAIG
You drink like a lady-dwarf.
We're out of boxed wine. Can I drink this one?
CRAIG
No, that one is expensive and for guests.
KATE
How much does this one cost?
CRAIG
That is a sipping wine, not a gulping wine.
KATE
One does not simple sip at wine!
CRAIG
You drink like a lady-dwarf.
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“One does not simply call rose, scarlet, flame, candy apple, cherry, or garnet all just “RED.””
Strange. I call them all “grounded for 8 hours or more.”
Just had an idea: do a series of comics about how all toothpastes advertise their cleaning ability, yet have very little independent studies of quality. That always bugged me.
I don’t think i could call that a “Red” wine either. it’s clearly a #C4507A wine.
Wine is designed to be quaffed, not sipped.
Anyone who thinks wine connoisseurs are “experts” should read this paper where white wine was coloured and presented as red wine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070928231853/http://www.academie-amorim.com/us/laureat_2001/brochet.pdf
That’s so weird! I read the link and I don’t understand why that happens. Clearly red wine is dense and white wine is light. You can feel that difference when tasting it. And one of the things people do when testing red wine is check for the “legs” (I think that’s the term). The idea is that red wine is dense and flows slowly when you turn the glass around, and you can see the wine traveling back down through the sides of the glass. White wine doesn’t do that. They may have thought it was white wine, but weirdly light.