Oddest item in your cellar

By far the most unusual thing I have in my cellar is made from grapes, but is not a wine. It is a bottle of 1989 Mars grape juice. It is in a green Mosel style bottle and is corked. Mars is a fairly new hybrid table grape that was introduced into Arkansas. One grower had part of one of his early harvests of this grape in 1989 made into white grape juice and bottled by a small winery in Arkansas. I was given a few bottles of it, of which one remains. The label is hand written, and it probably never was for commercial sale. Then I have a bottle of Blush Grape Juice from the same grower that has printed labels and may have had limited sales. It is in a 750 ml Bordeaux shaped bottle with screw cap. The color is rather dark pink. It is a blended juice from Reliance and Mars grapes. It contains only grape juice,sulfur dioxide, and a bit of citric acid. I would guess that most in Europe and many in California have never heard of Mars or Reliance grapes.

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Well, currently the strangest thing in my cellar is a goose, but when thawing is complete I expect it to trade cellar domicile for oven sometime tomorrow. Actually, there's nothing in my cellar (winewise) that I'd consider truly odd. I drank my last bottle of Alsatian Chardonnay a couple years back. I've been given wines from Krk, Turkey, Georgia (former SSR), and Missouri, but they all were consumed out of curiosity rather quickly. The oddest things left are maybe a random Loupiac or Ste. Croix d. Mont, or maybe a Spanna ('55!) . Not exactly commonplace in US, but not strange wines.

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Well, let's see. I have a can of Jim Beam cola. I think it was a Christmas gift.

I also have a container of pomegranate juice. It's supposed to be in some sparkler drink.

For wines, I have both a Chinese red wine and an Indian red wine.

I had the Chinese wine in Changchun, China and brought a couple bottles back with me. It is called Dynasty (I think) and is a Chinese French joint venture. I think it cost $4.00 (U.S.) a bottle. Don't remember the grape. I thought it was ok. C+

The Indian was a gift from the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai.

Bill Hogsett

Hi Nils, Maybe not that odd, but I do have a bottle of "Orchard Country Winery Cherry Blossom Wine" from Door County, Wisconsin. Unless someone can tell me that it's a perfect match with ... cherry pie or something, the bottle will still be my cellar long after I'm gone. :-(

Dick R. in Minnesota, USA

Jimmy Hoffa

Well now, we have a couple of *unique* wines living in the cellar....

1) Paradise Wines Ginger Wine from St. Lucia (one of the windward isles) which we purchased in 2003 when we got married there. 2) Lauderdale Cellars Mountain Delight from Tennessee. The label says that this is "a uniquely different, other than standard, Tennessee tomato table wine" --- that's right, it's made from tomatoes! And yes, it is as awful as it sounds :) 3) Key Limen from Key West, Florida. The label on this one reads "Key Lime and Citrus fruit wine".... haven't tasted this one. 4) Mr. P's Genuine Cashew Wine from Belize. As if I'd want a counterfeit one :)

Cheers, Gary

It is Wiederkehr and it is from the '79 vintage. Anybody know how the '79 vintage in Arkansas was? :-}

Sorry for the errors, Hunt

LOL!

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Hi Nils, I'm afraid I have no current 'oddest items' - there once was a 25 year old bottle of Sangria from Andalucia which turned out to be very good...(!), quite odd, that, but then it was a Stelvin closure... And, yes, I was once given a German bottle decorated in relief with a monkey climbing up all of it, an Affentaler (could be read "monkey valley"). Not a very good wine, that, which is not very odd, of course.. :-) Anders

A bottle of 1982 Cabernet Sauvignon from the former USSR (I'm told it's from Georgia). The label is in cryllic except for the the words "Cabernet Sauvignon" and the vintage. Bi!!

Salut/Hi Nils Gustaf Lindgren,

le/on Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:43:59 GMT, tu disais/you said:-

Solera 1978 "Mart's Tin shed muscat!" from Oz.

Though I've got a Romanian sweet white from 1980 called Cotnari, and a bizarre red from Alsace called "Bonum Brottum", which must come close.

A bottle of Rapazzini Garlic wine, complete with a rather dessicated head of garlic wrapped in the enclosing white plastic netting around the bottle. Made in Gilroy California, self-proclaimed garlic capital of the world.

I kept giving it to a friend for his birthday, but he kept giving it back for mine.

Bill, I got sucked into drinking some of that stuff by a guy that said it was the perfect pairing with escargot. It may be but the concentrated taste of garlic will still be in your mouth three days later.

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Hi Bill, they use some cyrillic in Georgia too, but the local Georgian alphabet is pretty different, see

depicting a bottle of Tsinandali where the lower label line is in cyrillic and the upper line is in Georgian! :-) Anders

Two 375 ml bottles of Chateau Potelle 2001 Zinie. It's a late harvest Zinfandel made into a "port like" wine. Has a unique flavor; one that I won't be adding any more bottles to my collection.