What smells kinda like fajitas and a dude you may date? This dreamily affordable Cabernet Franc. Available at DomaineLA. Shot & Edited by Josh Fuss. Music by Monster Rally.
Domaine Guion Bourgueil
Varietal: Cabernet Franc
Region: Loire, France
Year: 2012
Price: $14.99
Retailer: DomaineLA
I know it's been a million years since I posted a Wine Time so guess what, here is one for you! A dreamily affordable Cab Franc that smells kinda like a fajitas and a dude you could date.
Shot & Edited by Josh Fuss
Music by Monster Rally
Winerave pioneers Maxwell Leer and Adam Vourvoulis came over to my house to teach me how to party with bubbly and coconut knives without chopping off my fingers on Instagram videos. Special cameo from my favorite neighbor, Femi Lawson.
NOTE: The boom ended up totally not working so yes, we know, please don't bother leaving me a comment about it. Thanks for playing.
Fattoria Moretto
Price: $18.50
Region: Emilia Romagna, Italy
Retailer: Silverlake Wine
I sat down with my good friend Nathan Hazard of The Table Set podcast and LA pop up, The Coconut Club, for a Lambrusco lunch. It tastes like Harry Potter. I know I've used that comparison before, but THIS TIME I MEAN IT THE MOST!
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Cinematography by Antoin Huynh
Music by Monster Rally
Edited by Faith Davis
Tinajas de la Mata
Price: $24.99
Year: 2011
Region: Alicante, Spain
Retailer: DomaineLA
This is a really weird wine, but it's one of my absolute favorites. It is so weird though, that I wanted a guest who would be 100% honest about it. So I invited childhood best friend/college roommate/protective older brother forever and "The Most Popular Girls In School" creator Mark Cope to come sit on tiny poufs and drink this funky shit and make fun of me and the first time I ever got drunk because that's what life long friends do.
This is a super cool wine also because it's a natural orange wine. Bernabe, the bro who makes this, puts all the grapes in these clay pots called Tinajas and just lets them do their thing. And the thing they do is AMAZING. IT'S SO FUCKING GOOD. It tastes like the year I spent drinking Petrus Aged Pales alone at Sunset Beer.
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Cinematography by Antoin Huynh
Music by Monster Rally
Edited by Claire Gavin
I love my wine glasses. I have the Nattie 18oz Red Wine glasses from Crate & Barrel, which are really nice versatile glasses that work well with reds or whites. I used to have specific glasses for specific wines, but then it became a mess of like two Pinot glasses, two Chardonnay glasses and four flutes. Can't serve wine like that dude, or I can't. I'm very professional and need to have like twelve to eighteen matching glasses ready at any given time. And by "professional", I mean "neurotic".
That same neurosis that compels me to have thirty matching glasses, is the same one that infuriates me when I can't get lipstick off my glasses. It's the worst. As if I didn't have enough to worry about with people breaking them 100% of the time, I also have to worry about people destroying and disgustifying the rims for all eternity with Tom Ford's "Spanish Pink" or some garden variety L'Oreal. I was legitimately about to ban people from wearing lipstick or lip gloss at my house, but then I was like, "Eh, how am I really going to enforce that? That is going to get real weird, real quick."
Instead I lamented to my mom, who of course had the answer.
So now we don't have to ban our friends from wearing lipstick to save our glasses. Instead we can use my mom's secret to cleaning and continue being very chill hostesses.
Music by Monster Rally, as always.
Bogle Merlot
Price: $8.99
Year: 2012
Region: California
Retailer: Ur grocery store
I don't drink Merlot, ever. Which you can totally tell by how hard it is for me to say "Bogle Merlot" rather than "Bogle Syrah".
Shot & Edited by Faith Davis
Music by Monster Rally
Note: This post was not approved by Dyson. Or anyone.
You may not know this about me, but I am very much into homemaking. I love decorating. I love entertaining. I even love cleaning, but not as much as I love drinking wine. Cleaning is something I do nearly every day because I have pets and a boyfriend and a closet full of dirty clothes and because I'm just like my mother and my house needs to be fucking clean. I'm a busy modern woman renting a house with like four fucking jobs, so it's not always easy to fit cleaning into my busy wine drinking schedule.
Luckily with the Dyson DC59 it's TOO EASY!
No more tripping over cords and spilling wine everywhere! No more having to put your wine down to get out a step stool to dust those pesky spider webs! And no more getting on your hands and knees to collect dust bunnies instead of pouring yourself another glass!
YOU REALLY CAN HAVE IT ALL, WITH DYSON.
Shot by Antoin Huynh
Music by Monster Rally
Mezzacorona Pinot Noir
Price: $8.99
Year: 2013
Region: Dolomiti, Italy
This wine tastes like Jesus made it for Forever 21.
But does it pass The Ross Test? You know it.
Side note: Their Pinot Grigio made Wine & Spirits Best For Under $10 this year so, all those moms on K-Day are seemingly on to something.
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Cinematography by Antoin Huynh
Music by Monster Rally
Edited by
UPDATE: Mezzacorona is not happy about this.
Earl Stevens Function Red Blend
Price: $14.99
Year: 2012
Region: Northern California
Retailer: Grocery stores (check this store locator)
Rachael Steak Tooth Finley Anderson is one of my favorite people in the world to drink wine with off camera, so it was obviously very fun to drink wine with her on camera.
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Cinematography by Antoin Huynh
Music by Monster Rally
Edited by Claire Gavin
Domaine de la Fouquette Cuvée Rosée d'Aurore
Price: ~ $15
Year: 2013
Region: France
Retailer: Whole Foods
My hilarious homie Andrew Ti, creator of the "Yo, Is This Racist?" website and podcast, joined me to drink and talk about Rosé because hey, wine not?
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Cinematography by Antoin Huynh
Music by Monster Rally
Edited by Faith Davis
I'm Marissa A. Ross.
I write and drink wine.
I have no qualifications to write about drinking wine,
aside from the fact that
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