Bottled B*tch!

Last Saturday, I had the pleasure of having lunch with my blog sista Serenity23. She'd skipped merrily into town for the weekend. We went to one of my favorite places of late, the Watershed, but we went in the afternoon, and they had this weird anemic afternoon menu. I guess that's why me and my crew always run up there after 5 pm. HUMPH!

Now, I'd been walking around the Kroger grocery store in my hood. I always refer to it as the "White peoples Kroger", because it was built when the white folks started migrating from suburbs back into downtown. So it is very nice, very clean, carries all things gourmet, and the checkout lines are very short. Plus they play the hottest music, everything from After7 to Prince to Luther. And you know that I'm down for that, man!!

Anyway, I saw something that made me laugh out loud. And I had to buy it for Serenity, with her being a wine connoisseur and all.

I bought her this bottle of wine.

Yeah, you read it right. A bottle of Bee-yotch.

I told her, a week ago that when I first saw it, I thought of her.

**crickets**

I'm said that because I know she likes wine. (At least I think that is why I said that, LOL.)

Just in case one couldn't make out the beautiful and fancy script on front of the bottle, the makers took the liberty of placing it on the back of the bottle... over and over, a gazillion times.

I'm not sure what's up with that. All I know, it was a grand marketing scheme. Let's just say that when I first saw it at the local grocery store a month ago, there were cases and cases of it sitting right in front the milk aisle.

I don't know much about wine, but I thought all GOOD wine came from corked bottles. This one has a pretty pink screw cap. So for all I know, this bottle of "Barossa Grenache" could taste like some doggone ripple or Mad Dog 20/20. LOL!

(And by the way, what the heck is "Barossa Grenache"?? That don't even sound right!)

(UPDATE: click here for a site that talks about this wine. It seems to be quite popular and hard to find).

When I bought that bottle, there were only 2 cases left. I don't know, maybe they took most of it into the back after someone complained... I was surprised that they would have it stashed in front of the coolers that held the milk. Isn't that a child friendly area?

Hmmm... go figure.

I don't drink wine. As a matter of fact, I don't drink at all. When I did drink, I was more partial to the cheap stuff like malt liquor and Boone's Farm. I would have had to mix the bottle of B*tch above with some cheap thunderbird or some Champale or something.

The Oldgirl has come a loooonnng way. A very long way.

Really though.

S23... be sure to let me know how that wine is.

And it was great seeing you, girl:)