Great Spam

I am now using a great product, Mailblocks, to get rid of spam. I get nearly 400 e-mails a day, with maybe 10% of them actually being real messages from real people to me. The rest are the usual array of penile enlargement, viagra, breast enlargement, mortgages, Christian dating (I'm big with these people), etc.

Today, I got some interesting wine spam from Jennifer Pollock, a salesperson at Vino Veritas. Jennifer can be reached at 1-707-836-8855, which is the store number. This is a store in an unlikely place called Windsor, California.

The spam read:

2001 Hundred Acre Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
Hundred Acre Vineyard
Napa, North Coast, California, USA
Cabernet Sauvignon (a dry red table wine)

36b available $150 a bottle

Said to be the next Screaming Eagle. This wine has yet to be released and has limited allocation.

Wine Advocate #142 (Aug 2002) Robert Parker (92-94) points Drink 2002-2017 The 2001 (1,500 case of 100% Cabernet Sauvignon) may be the Le Pin of Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. This is a lascivious, powerful, smoky sex pot of great fruit intensity, purity, and voluptuousness...."


I passed on this offer, but the 36 bottles might still be available.

Plus, I have to hand it to wine journalist Robert Parker for coming up with the phrase: a lascivious, powerful smoky sex pot of great fruit intensity, purity and voluptuousness.

Wine journalism is a difficult field and it is great to see Mr. Parker finding new ways to describe exciting new wines. We need this sort of creativity in the wine industry!
- Joe Dressner 11-18-2003 9:01 pm


There's a fun little water park in Windsor that I've often heard remarked has many "a lascivious, powerful smoky sex pot of great fruit intensity, purity and voluptuousness." Go figure!
- Scott Kraft 11-19-2003 2:19 am


Wine Advocate #148 (Aug 2003) Robert Parker 95 points . """This is hedonistic/intellectual liquified Viagra that must be tasted to be believed."""



- Real Wino 11-19-2003 10:50 am


What was the wine that got the Viagra reference?

I suppose I would prefer the sex pot wine to the viagra wine.

It sounds less manipulated.
- Joe Dressner 11-19-2003 12:08 pm


Are these wines male or female? Hetero- or bisexual?
- i am curious (red) (guest) 11-19-2003 7:49 pm


Forgot to add if they are homosexual.
- i am curious (red) (guest) 11-19-2003 7:50 pm


I suspect that only heterosexual wines get above 94 points.

I think there is a free-lance journalist in New York working on an analysis of this problem for publication in the next couple of months.

I'm not sure which magazine will be covering the controversy.
- Joe Dressner 11-21-2003 1:31 am


Hmmm. Massachussetts may have to ban the sale of all wines over 94 points.
- i am curious (red) (guest) 11-21-2003 7:17 pm


I'm a smoky sex pot. How come I don't get 94 points from Parker?
- Paris Hilton (guest) 11-22-2003 5:58 am


Paris:

You're too widely available.
- Joe Dressner 11-22-2003 5:53 pm