I found some wine I can stand

Yumm, do you just love those girly drinks.

don

;-)

Because I am girly. My friend and I invented them; we've dubbed this drink a "KY Special." You mix 3/4ths berry wine as mentioned above,

1/3rd (do math badly on purpose to add to the girlyness) club soda, a dash of grenadine if you are feeling extra girly, put in one of those lexan wine glasses with ice, and stir with a fork. I can't stress the fork-stirrer enough. It adds just the right white-trashiness. The name comes from my first initial (Katy), the very small town in which I live (it starts with a Y) and "special" means "how to make very frugal wine coolers." But I drank almost a whole bottle over the course of the evening last night and while it finally precipitated a buzz, the poor sleep and nausea I'm not sure was worth it. It did go well with the shish-kebobs and finadene, however.

-Katy

I was relieved that your drink "KY Special" was named after initials from your name and town. If one of the ingredients had been KY, I don't think I would chance drinking it :-). (for the benefit of those outside of the US, KY is the trademark of a personnel jelly used in various body openings, but not taken by mouth, so far as I know).

Heh. I've got a bottle of Pasek (Mt. Vernon, WA) blackberry wine here, and yep, it was purchased by my girlyfriend. It's been sitting around for at least two years, thankfully forgotten in the stacks. Yer not gonna get me to drink this stuff, no matter what you add to it. Given a choice between a "KY Special" and real KY....well, okay, let's not go there. LOL.

So you live in Yelm?

JJ

Heh, let's crack it open. I have some club soda.

Yelm? I just meant I live 'yonder.' Just kidding. Where is Yelm??

-Katy

Great minds, and all that: I had exactly the same thought. FWIW, I believe that one of the big selling points for KY was that it could be ingested without undue consequences. Credit that tidbit of information to a childhood spent in proximity to SF. :P

Mark Lipton

Of course we knew of the double entendre when we named the beverage. Like many of the mixed drinks one can order at a bar. All those

*graphic activities* on the beach drinks and so on.

-Katy

A very small town in Western Washington, about 20 miles east of Olympia. Claim to dubious fame: Home of J.Z Knight. Hmmm...I wonder if a 3500-year-old spirit-warrior can tell us what the best 1500 B.C. wine is for long-term aging. ;)

JJ