Interesting brand name for a wine co.

Strong Bad

Doesn't sound too appealing. I saw this while shopping for a bottle of wine last night.

http://www.fatbastardwine.com/index2.htm

CrBoy

Sure is interesting... "Feel good drinking Fat ****................ Wine..."

mldennison

i bought some of that as a funny gift for a party and it was pretty good! i think it was the chardonnay that i tried.

Skynut

I buy the Fat **** Chard whenever I see it. Good stuph.

heiney9

It's a good everyday wine. The name is a great conversation piece. There are so many good everyday wines now days, it's almost impossible to get really poor wine. I'm a big wino so being able to get affordable (cheap ) everyday drinking wine is a good thing. Save the better stuff for special occasions.

Of course if you try you can get some pretty marginal wine, even for the casual wino who knows very little about wine. Remember that big rage a few years ago. Charles Shaw known as 2 Buck Chuck. I call it 2 Buck-up-Chuck. Nasty stuff.

The thing to remember about wine today is there are so many brands but many are distributed by very large liquor corporations. What happens is one winery makes several grades of wine, all very decent, and all dependant on the grapes, region and aging, etc, etc. and then market it under a different name. Keeps their upper-market labels profitable because some buy by name. Also the upper scale labels are much more quality conscience. Some blends don't quite make it to the upper-scale labels. They used to sell it off to other distributors now the same winery is using their own lower level blends to market a completely different label.

If you do an indepth study of wineries and labels you'll see this happening more and more. It's a good thing, because the quality across all levels is more consistent and the wine makers mark is similar in many of the wines they produce regardless of what label they are marketed under.

Damn...I didn't mean to go on so much. :eek:

Just to give a very basic example. The Berhinger label markets wine under Stone Street Cellars. It's basically the same blend as the std. Behringer line except it didn't quite meet whatever minimum std. to be called Behringer. Still an excellent wine at about $3-5 less. Of course this excludes special growths and like Howell Mountain, etc.

This goes on alot and I'd suspect Behringer also has other labels they use to sell different grades of wine.

H9

Strong Bad

There was a big thread on wines a little while back.

I've really warmed up to wines over the last few years. We have several nice wineries here in Maryland, my favorite being Linganore Winery.

I've tasted some expensive wines and cheaply priced wines. Really, you can get some awesome wine at a cheap price. I don't buy into this $100-$200 piss-in-a-bottle stuff. I go to the winery, pick up stuff for $8-$12 a bottle and enjoy the hell out of it.

John

mldennison

I go to the winery, pick up stuff for $8-$12 a bottle and enjoy the hell out of it.

thats my plan for this spring when things start warming up - weekend trips to wineries for tastings and then buying direct from them. try before you buy!

Tour2ma

I've seen winery prices higher than at local stores.

Fat ****... good attention getter. Another is "DucXoup" after the Mark's brothers' movie.

opus

My wife has to deal with a fat **** wine-ing every night:D

venomclan

We have been drinking Fat **** for 4 years. It is actually pretty good. It is a French Wine, great attention getting name. Give it a try.
Venom

masanz1

guess it's better than this

http://www.arrogantbastard.com/faq/index.html

wodom1

masanz1 wrote:

guess it's better than this

http://www.arrogantbastard.com/faq/index.html

That's one of the best beers that I've had. Another one I drink is Founder's Dirty ****:

Zen Dragon

wodom1 wrote:

That's one of the best beers that I've had. Another one I drink is Founder's Dirty ****:

Arrogant **** is a very good micro-brewed beer. It has a strong hop signature, and an elevated alcohol content. The label makes for fun reading also.

Don't know that i've ever had Founders dirty ****.

wodom1

Zen Dragon wrote:

Arrogant **** is a very good micro-brewed beer. It has a strong hop signature, and an elevated alcohol content. The label makes for fun reading also.

Don't know that i've ever had Founders dirty ****.

I had a bottle of Arrogant **** a few years ago at the Flying Saucer Draught Emporium in Memphis, TN and loved the stuff. I can't get anything by Stone up in Chicago, which sucks.

Founders Dirty **** is good but not great, I was just throwing the name out 'cuz of our current theme. I think they have a very limited distribution area as they are pretty small. They're out of Grand Rapids, MI.

jdhdiggs

Strong:

You gotta do the southern PA, northern MD wine trail sometime. Some good stuff along there.

Strong Bad

jdhdiggs wrote:

Strong:

You gotta do the southern PA, northern MD wine trail sometime. Some good stuff along there.

Definitely! Once it gets REALLY nice out, we'll have to catch up at a winery and shoot the ****. Heck, you're not that far from me.


John