one of those nights i wont drink wine

tonight i am headed to a phillies game with my husband and a business colleague of his. i love the phillies, love baseball, hotdogs...you get the picture. and that citizens bank ball park...is amazing. fresh, modern and packed with all varieties of food choices. but let's face it, in some areas of life, beer rules. and this is one of those areas. and the stupid beer at the ball park (no offense to anchor steam brewery, which i think does sell its beer at citi park and is pretty tasty) is extremely over-priced.

so it's either pepsi or coke, which i think is pepsi at citi park or beer. so tonight with my well-deserved hotdog and fries, i think i'll coax my husband into fetching me an anchor steam, he'll cringe while he pulls the money out of his wallet to take the dreaded walk. i'll be thinking about the fact that i could have purchased almost a whole bottle of wine for that price. but i will drink it with my salty meal and dream of riesling.

hey, i just remembered there's a few drops of riesling left in the fridge...
avia riesling, cheap and tasty, big bottle, 1.5 liter for under 8 bucks.

don't be afraid to tilt the glass.

the black box

i may as well get right to it, just so you see exactly where you've landed in the amazing world of wine. i have wine with dinner almost everyday, (my husband has introduced me to iced herbal tea with stevia...refreshing, so i've been drinking a lot of that also) anyway, no real person cracks open a $20 plus bottle of wine every night, at least no real people that we know. so one of my yummy alternatives is a product called "black box". this is a wine company that uses wine made from premium grapes, then pours four 750.ml bottles of it into a plastic container, cover it with a stylish black box and ta da...you have a big adult juice box filled with pretty decent wine. the german riesling being our favorite.
so you see why the creation of this blog was so necessary for my sanity. i need to connect with the real wine lovers, those of us who don't mind traveling off the well-beaten path for a sip, those of us with no shame, just looking to enjoy the vino without judgement. we've drawn our lines, we have our limits...but not many. this blog is for the brave hearts, people that concern themselves with grapes, not containers and corks.

don't be afraid to tilt the glass.

i am who i am

welcome. i'm a lazy typist. so you wont see much in the way of capitalization but you will be overwhelmed with my passion. since this blog is titled "wine and the underground", you probably have figured out that my passion is directed in the area of the juice of the gods. this is true. but what about the underground? well...i am somewhat of a scrappy, sultry rebel who will try any wine at least once and i am not afraid of the new "stelvin closure", the revival of the screw cap and i am not afraid of the big giant adult version of the juice box either. i am not afraid of what people think about wine freaks and geeks. i'm proud to be a gluttonous, insatiable consumer. and i want to meet more of the same. the tattooed, pierced and courageous who crawl in at night, slip into something a bit kinky and pour white wine into a red wine glass....ahhhhh, the delicious, sinful thought of it all.
secret: one night it was sticky and hot, so i dropped a cube of ice into my shiraz...now my husband knows.
drink to the underground geeks and freaks.
don't be afraid to tilt the glass.