Wal-Mart Wine

[jaysunb]

Sent to me.....wine lovers will appreciate :rofl:




Walmart Wine


Wal-Mart announced that, on January 1, 2007, it will
begin offering customers a new discount item -
WALMART's own brand of wine. The world's largest
retail chain is teaming up with Ernest &Julio Gallo
Winery of California to produce the spirits at an
affordable price, in the $2-$5 range.

Wine connoisseurs may not be inclined to throw a
bottle of WalMart brand into their shopping carts,
but "there is a market for inexpensive wine," said
Kathy Micken, professor of marketing at Universityof
Arkansas, Bentonville. She said: "But the right name
is important."

Customer surveys were conducted to determine the
most attractive name for the WalMart wine brand. The
top surveyed names in order of popularity were:

10. Chateau Traileur Parc
9. White Trashfindel
8. Big Red Gulp
7. World Championship Riesling
6. NASCARbernet
5. Chef Boyardeaux
4. Peanut Noir
3. I Can't Believe It's Not Vinegar!
2. Grape Expectations
1. Nasti Spumante

The beauty of Wal-Mart wine is that it can be served
with either white meat (Possum) or red meat
(Squirrel).

[SacredCow]

1. I would laugh....

but I'm drinking from a 5-dollar bottle of merlot at this very moment...

I save the better stuff for sharing!

[tuvor]

2. My wine's cheaper than that.

I make my own. With kits from a place called Grape Expectations.

I suppose you find that funny, too.

[SacredCow]

3. How does it turn out?

I've done a good bit of homebrewing, but never attempted to make any wine.

[tuvor]

4. Very well.

Of course, it gets better with age, but it's just fine to drink right away.

I even went CHEAPER this year and made lavender wine from scratch just to see what it'd be like ($0.30/bottle). It's sort of like vermouth, and is best cut with say, some club soda.

Not difficult to do if you have a little bit of space. Lots of resources on the Web, e.g. www.rjspagnols.com who makes a lot of kits.

[SacredCow]

5. I've always wanted to try some wines...

My parents grow Muscadines (which are similar to scuppernongs, I think) and blackberries. I made a blackberry beer many years back, and it turned out quite well.

[tuvor]

6. I'm not conversant in grape varieties.

In fact, I have three small vines in my backyard, but I know the name of only one of them. Or at least I used to--can't recall it now! :)

Blackberry beer sounds interesting, although I'm not a big beer fan; I made blackberry wine last year from some fantastic local fruit, but it doesn't taste all that great, even after a year of aging.

[SacredCow]

7. I had heard that about Blackberries...

I think that there's just way too much sugar in those things, and the wine ends up tasting like alcoholic Kool-Aid.
The beer,however, was excellent- I had several people who were lukewarm on beer in general ask for a bottle to take home.

I don't know that Muscadines and/or Scuppernongs are truly classified as grapes. They grow on vines, but they have extremely tough skin- totally inedible.

[tuvor]

9. Hmm...

Now I'll have to find a neighbour who's adventurous in their beermaking. :)

[susanna]

11. Lavender wine? Do tell!

Generally, how is it made? n/t

[tuvor]

12. LOL Couldn't be simpler.

4 kg white sugar, 1 kg brown sugar (along with the usual initial ingredients like tannin, acid, potassium metabisulfite, yeast), and about a pint/litre of boiled lavender flowers, all topped up in a primary fermenter with water to 23 litres.

That's about all there is, as far as ingredients are concerned. If you're interested in the specific recipe, PM me and I'll find it for you.

[susanna]

13. No, that's fine; wow! I would never have thought it.

I grow lavender (in Michigan - yes, really) and it has taken over half my garden. I have the loveliest sachets and I've actually made a lavender pound cake...but the wine sounded really interesting! Thanks for sharing that with me. :-)

[tuvor]

15. We have a ton of lavender in our yard, too.

Not quite half a garden, but so much that it's felt like a waste to have done nothing with it after it's spent for the year.

I might make another batch of the wine with what we've harvested, but the rest we'll find some more "aromatic" uses for.

[susanna]

16. Seriously, for me the stuff is becoming a weed...

Which is interesting, because I am certainly not in a arid mediterranean climate! Any uses I can find for it are A-OK with me. ;-)

[tuvor]

17. I thought it was supposed to grow just about anywhere.

I'm on Vancouver Island--not at all arid. :shrug:

[susanna]

18. Well, obviously you read right...

...that stuff is amazingly prolific. I had just always associated it in my own head with the south of France I guess. :-)

[Scooter24]

8. not sure about "walmart" wines...

but tonight I enjoyed a bottle of 94 Chateau Montelena with dinner. Was superb. It was pricey @ $100 but was well worth it. Not quite sure on the $5 bottles though, especially under the walmart brand.

[jaysunb]

10. I'm envious......

LOL ! as I sit here sipping 2 buck chuck !

Actually, my favorite everyday wine is a 5 buck Australian Merlot called Yellow Tail.

[pitohui]

14. well what happened to "two buck chuck"?

to be honest, the wine sold in our walmart is the same wine sold in the other grocery stores -- woodridge, yellowtail, kendall jackson, the usual suspects really -- oh and i can't forget that rosemount shiraz or "the little penguin"

as far as the hard stuff, they even had chopin vodka the other day, they had maker's mark, hmmm, can't remember what all really, not as good as the actual wine store, of course not, but a pretty decent selection of bottles under $30 if you ask me


on edit -- i see that jayson is drinking 2 buck chuck even as we speak, so it's obviously still around, just not in louisiana walmart i guess, have a glass for me, jayson!