Stupid Questions 2

Think Before you speak!
Customer - How do you get the oak out of a Unoaked wine?
Me – (Laughing out loud and thinking that’s a good one…but then noticing they are serious)…ummmm…. the wine is not put in oak so there is no oak to remove.

Multiple stupid questions
Customer - How do you make Cabernet out of the grapes from the store?
Me – Do you mean from Safeway...because those are different grapes..They are not Cabernet Sauvignon grapes…They have different names like Concord.
Customer – So all of these wines are not made from the same grape?
Me – (Is this guy serious? ..Is someone playing a joke on me?) Wine is made from different grapes…Each grape tastes different…Cabernet Sauvignon is a grape type, so is Merlot, and chardonnay and shiraz and so on.
Customer – Really are you sure that there isn’t one grape that makes all wines?(not believing anything I say)
Me - Yeah positive. (As I walk away)

This next question was asked in a stupid way, but made me think?
Customer - When God made water into wine he made what kind of wine did he make?
Me – Uh…I don’t know…I guess what ever kind of grapes was popular 2000 years ago.

Cava Grapes

Why don’t you see table wine available that is made from the grapes that makes Cava? I mean Champagne has Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, two great grapes that can make great table wine, but you don’t often see great table wine made from Macabea, Paellada, Xarello and Monstrell. You don’t see acronyms like ABM- Anything But Macabeo, or on-line discussions about too much oak being added to California Parellada, or a club that has been created to bring together all the fans of Xarello or a movie where two buddies decide to go to Penendes to taste their way through the regions best Monstrell. Cava is not bad…sometimes I prefer it to Champagne.

I am going to go look for some!