Megalomaniac Wine Winery

• October 2009

  Some more cool (or not) names for wineries. Marketing is a bizarre menagerie of ... nod off after drinking) --Megalomaniac Wine (Ontario, with offerings like Narcissist Riesling, My Way Chardonnay, Pink Slip Pinot Noir Rose, Bravado Cabernet Sauvignon, SonOfaBitch and Doggone... Read moreSome more cool (or not) names for wineries. Marketing is a bizarre menagerie of ... nod off after drinking) --Megalomaniac Wine (Ontario, with offerings like Narcissist Riesling, My Way Chardonnay, Pink Slip Pinot Noir Rose, Bravado Cabernet Sauvignon, SonOfaBitch and Doggone SonOfaBitch Pinot Noir, Vainglorious Cabernet Merlot, Bigmouth Merlot, and Coldhearted Cabernet Franc Icewine) --Stompytoe from Senile Farms Winery (Arkansas) --Vino El Pavo Substandard American Grape Wine (Florida ; pavo is 'turkey' in Spanish; 'certified color added, 16% alcohol by volume') --Big Ass RED Tablewine (Hopland, CA) --Moral Compass (Napa; kinda like this one ;-) ) --Oops ('cheeky little red, lost grape of Bordeaux discovered in Chile masquerading as a Merlot') --Recall Red (Mendocino; came out shortly after Schwartzenegger became governor) --Harper Hill White Trash White (chardonnay from Bakersfield...) --Redneck Red (also Bakersfield) --Hair of the Dingo (semillon/chardonnay from Oz) --Flying Pig (Sicily; 'We think you stand more chance of seeing a flying pig than a better wine at this price') --'YN' (CA) --Sonoma Beach Zinfandel (Stu Pedasso Cellars) --Coat Roti (South Africa, with a picture of a leaping goat on the label) OK, enough frivolous use of time for me for now. Plenty more out there, though. Maybe some from the Western Cape of South Africa, next time I post... For any critter in a name or otherwise on a wine label, from Aardvark to Zebra, check out http://www.critterwines.com/    (hide)

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• October 2009

  Andrzej Lipinski: One of Canada's Pioneering Winemakers One question that ... Legends, DeSousa, Fielding, Megalomaniac, Foreign Affair and Organized Crime. He feels it is important to keep moving in order to keep evolving as a winemaker. Andrzej’s need to learn and apply himself... Read moreAndrzej Lipinski: One of Canada's Pioneering Winemakers One question that ... Legends, DeSousa, Fielding, Megalomaniac, Foreign Affair and Organized Crime. He feels it is important to keep moving in order to keep evolving as a winemaker. Andrzej’s need to learn and apply himself can be easily seen in his love of winemaking in poor vintages because of the challenges that they present, and cool climates for their need to adapt to each vintage. His much deserved pride in his work was evident when I asked him what he finds to be the biggest problem facing the Canadian wine industry today, and he replied the lack of a true free market. He feels as though Canadian wine should be treated as a food product as it is elsewhere in the world and that if this were to happen, then Canadian wine would be able to compete with wine from anywhere else in the world. Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber once said, “What I love about wine is the joy of discovery. It’s the fact that wine is so obviously affected by what people do to create it.” I feel that as long as Canadian wine continues to be made by individuals such as Andrzej, he is correct in his assumption that there is the potential for Canadian wine to be among the best in the world, as his wines have clearly already demonstrated.   Naomi Lauri    (hide)

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