The Jelly Belly Vineyard

In keeping with wine is fun and not stuffy Wine X Magazine has set up a fun way to learn about flavours in wine. It is called the Jelly Belly Wine Bar. The idea is to select a few different jelly bean flavours throw them all in your mouth and the will add up to a certain grape flavour.
For example
A French Cabernet Sauvignon is 2 Blackberry + Cherry + Raspberry + Plum + Licorice + Dr. Pepper + Dirt (There really is a dirt flavoured jelly bean).
RP gives this blend a 87 saying it is Broad and Expressive revealing a lot of fruit, but is a bit too sweet.
MR claims that there was not enough Micro-Oxygenation and was left on the vine too long.

The best way to enjoy these beans is to buy a special crystal spoon that places all of the beans in the correct spot on your tongue. There are 240 different spoons, one for each of the different varietals or blends.

If you are trying the Champagne blend I recommend adding Pop Rocks to get a closer mouth feel.

High Oenology

Thanks to PL for this Idea

I have been thinking about how working at the wine shop is a bit like the movie High Fidelity. In describing the movie and its characters you can replace the music reference with a wine reference. The movie is based around a specialty record/wine shop that provides a service in good music/wine and hard to find records/wine. There is a record/wine geek who always tries to find the new excellent record/wine. He knows that Green Day/California Cult Cab would be no where without The Undertones/Bordeaux. There is the obnoxious employee who get pissed at the people who buy ‘I Just Called to Say I Love You’/’Little Penguin’ instead of ‘Masterblaster’/’Cloudy Bay’. There is another scene where a character measures up the customers in the store and proves they are lemmings by selling five copies of the new album by The Beta Band. I often feel like this and that I could sell any wine by just saying a few BS wine remarks. At one point the main character spends time re-ordering his music collection from alphabetical to chronological. I could see myself doing something like rearranging my wine cellar from regional to wine style, or basing it on a vintage chart and arranging the wines by when they are ready to drink. . The movie has an underlying theme based on top five lists; Top five break-ups on all time, top five songs for a Monday morning and so on…..

…So in honor of this here is my Top 5 Wines for a hot summer day

5 Moscato d’Asti
4 German Riesling
3 Vino Verde
2 Alsace Gewürztraminer
1 New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc