|| Wine ||
It all started with a Groupon...
So, we found a Groupon one day for The Wine Butler . $69 for 28 bottles of red wine? YES PLEASE! We got the " South African Cabernet Sauvignon "... or more appropriately as we call it now, grape juice with alcohol in it. At the time of bottling, we got a huge discount coupon for coming back to create another batch. We knew that our new cheap-o $69 alcoholic grape juice wine wasn't going to be good wine by any means, but we did enjoy a batch we made at a previous wine company and wanted to re-stock. So, we asked the owner/whoever it was what their most popular wine was, that their customers had good reviews about and kept coming back for. He said definitely the Amarone from their Exceptional Wines selection . So, we bought it and saved $100 off the $209 regular price. We went back to bottle it the other day and... guess what...while it's darker in colour than our first batch, it tastes EXACTLY the same as the Groupon wine. I was so disappointed. We do drin...