Freshly appearing at a local restaurant, BearBoat wines, from Sonoma. Entertaining name, with its /b/’s. And with cute labels, with this as a template:
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Particular instances have captions as well as the graphic.
I’ve done alliteration with /b/ before:
“Beer Bust at Blow Buddies” (link)
BOAR BRISTLE (link)
And then there are other entertaining wine names. An old favorite of mine is Bonny Doon‘s Le Cigare Volant:
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There are sites that collect bizarre and funny wine names, for instance this one, which offers, among other things:
Horse’s Ass, Hey Mambo, Goats do Roam [Côtes du Rhône], Plungerhead, Pinot Evil [See No Evil], Fat Bastard, Toasted Head, Gnarly Head, Arrogant Frog
September 12, 2013 at 4:03 pm |
Shot Enough to Pop (Châteauneuf du Pape), and of course Horsepiss du Beaune (which my old friend and teacher Wild Bill Ober [of blest memory] said translated Keats’s “the true, the blushful Hippocrene”, claiming that “hippocrene” was a misprint for “hippocrine”, ‘a horse secretion’.)
I could tell you more about Wild Bill Ober, but it was a gynecologic pathology thing, you wouldn’t understand. He’d do a mime of a 7th Avenue clothing merchant and proclaim “I’m in ladies’ linings”.