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I mentioned in another thread that my father in law has been known to bring a bottle of St Henri to a Summer BBQ and then bring a bottle of Cellarmasters Generic Brand red to a 40th Birthday celebration.

Without being a wine snob what is the stupidest wine related thing you've witnessed a non wine geek or a wine wanker do.

I've done many stupid things in my time but I was working in a wine store about 15 years ago and a customer walked in:

Me: Good afternoon do you need any help?
Customer:Douglas Lamb
Me:No problem...just on the shelf over there mate
Customer:Errrrr......no....I'm Douglas Lamb

Haha great post.

My moment was when i couldn't find a cork screw whilst having a dinner party with a group of friends. I decided to attempt to open the cork using a boot lace and wooden spoon (I saw this done before) Anyhow.. I pushed the cork into the bottle using the end of the spoon (good so far) tied a large knot in one end of the boot lace and pushed it into the bottle with the end of the spoon. I the proceeded to move the lace up and down trying to catch the knot under the cork that was bobbing just below the neck of the bottle, Once the cork was caught I then wrapped the other end of the boot lace around the spoon and pulled (With a smug look on my face) at that moment the cork came flying out followed by half the wine from the bottle thus showering my dinner guests and myself.

Tip: Always keep a spare cork screw handy

Cheers
John

Not necessarily dumb, but this one hurt.

In the earlier days of wine appreciation, at storage facility repackaging wines, with a loose bottle of 2001 Cullen DM on one of those trolleys. Stood to stretch my back, and felt my leg bump to trolley with remarkably smooth wheels (if only shopping trolleys were similarly graceful), too late... it un-graciously toppled from the trolley to the concrete floor, spilling it's precious contents.... At this stage, I had as yet tasted a Cullen DM.......... My initial reaction was to actually get on all fours and start slurping, but social graces prevented such actions, as then girlfriend (now wifey) was there, and in the early days of courtship, such actions would have been difficult to justify... Mopped it up, put on a brave face, and went home to cry under a big rock.

Silver lining: ??? none.

Cheers,

Monghead.

monghead wrote:Not necessarily dumb, but this one hurt.

In the earlier days of wine appreciation, at storage facility repackaging wines, with a loose bottle of 2001 Cullen DM on one of those trolleys. Stood to stretch my back, and felt my leg bump to trolley with remarkably smooth wheels (if only shopping trolleys were similarly graceful), too late... it un-graciously toppled from the trolley to the concrete floor, spilling it's precious contents.... At this stage, I had as yet tasted a Cullen DM.......... My initial reaction was to actually get on all fours and start slurping, but social graces prevented such actions, as then girlfriend (now wifey) was there, and in the early days of courtship, such actions would have been difficult to justify... Mopped it up, put on a brave face, and went home to cry under a big rock.

Silver lining: ??? none.

Cheers,

Monghead.

Surely the novel courting procedure results were the silver lining?

cheers

Carl

Surely the novel courting procedure results were the silver lining?

cheers

Carl

Carl,

Funny you should say that, as wifey and I now look back at that memory and think "if only". If only we had both slurped the Cullen from the cement floor. Now, that would be something worth telling the grand-kids.

Monghead.