Posted on 06/15/2017 4:01:25 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Brights Pale Dry Select does not often appear on lists of recommended wines in magazines. It is scarcely lauded by critics, rarely endorsed by aficionados and regularly overlooked by awards bodies. Most serious wine drinkers, I expect, have no idea it exists. But in its own unlikely way, Brights Pale Dry Select is ubiquitous in this country – as much a fixture of our national diet of drink as the beloved Caesar. We simply don’t hear about it, because Brights Pale Dry Select happens to be enjoyed almost exclusively by the homeless.
In the summer of 2006, I took a job as a part-time sales clerk at Wine Rack, the retail division of Constellation Brands Canada, which owns a number of Niagara-based wineries, including Inniskillin, Jackson-Triggs and Naked Grape, among others, and which sells these wines in cities throughout Ontario from standalone shops and boutiques barnacled to grocery stores. I learned about Pale Dry Select on my first day. Pale Dry Select, I was informed, was the Wine Rack’s most popular item by far: our tiny outlet on Elgin Street in Ottawa sold several dozen bottles of the stuff every day, each one to the visibly destitute.
Our homeless clientele – regulars who lived on or around Elgin, mainly, and who would shop with us two or three times between when we opened mid-morning and closed late at night – would drink nothing but Pale Dry. Nobody else even looked at it. So entrenched was this routine that if someone who did not appear to be homeless came in and asked for Pale Dry Select we were instructed to refuse them, because ordinarily this meant a homeless customer who had been denied service previously had asked for it to be bought on their behalf.
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To answer the headline question, none whatsoever. Adults are 100% responsible for their own actions. If you drink yourself silly, that’s on no one but you.
And now Hipsters, thinking it’s ironic, will start drinking that crap and drive the price up.
None. Next question?
So Thunderbird is out,eh?
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“Brights Pale Dry Select does not often appear on lists of recommended wines in magazines. It is scarcely lauded by critics, rarely endorsed by aficionados and regularly overlooked by awards bodies.”
Please provide the names of the critics lauding same. I’ll avoid their future recommendations.
Be responsible for your own life.
Is Trader Joes taken to task for selling ‘two buck Chuck’ their own notoriously cheap brand?
MD 20/20 in a Slurpee.
Get both at 7-11.
And the pinnacle of Bum Wines, Night Train.
=like you never tried it in college . . .
Ramen Noodles and MD 20/20, now THAT”S a meal before a test.
Ha, ha, belch!
Some of that stuff does not qualify as wine. It’s grain alcohol with water and flavorings. It’s a mixed drink that might kinda taste like wine.
“What’s the price?”
Bottle looks like Thor’s hammer.
The same degree a food manufacturer is responsible for obese college kids
Ping
I’ll bet it pairs well with Skittles!
*SMIRK*
As long as they stay away from the Everclear, I’m OK with that.
NAh, they start with really sour bad tasting wine and add sugar and flavorings to make it palatable. I like Australian ‘goon’ (wine in a bag) just for the name of it.
Yes. I see the stuff is actually sherry; cheap actual wine with added grain alcohol, sugar and flavorings.
You have socialized medicine and Brights is doing you a favor. Alcoholics drink whatever they can get their hands on. In places like Russia, men regularly poison themselves and wind up blind, brain damaged, or dead due to bad moonshine. Pull Brights off of the market and watch the national health care cost soar.
Really then the question should be, "To what extent - if any - is a busy body journalist responsible for the injuries and deaths his version of socialism causes?"
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