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Ferrari-Carano Fume Blanc 12 - this is a way of selling
Sauvignon Blanc to the unsuspecting. I wasn't fooled;
Rosemary was (but she likes Sauvignon Blanc). Strong
gooseberries, a bit of grapefruit. The cat pee was in
evidence, but there was a sweetness that kind of tried
to neutralize it. I wouldn't be inclined to pour it for
myself and in fact tipped half the glass into a pot of
meat sauce I was making. Bad idea - the tomatoes or
something brought out the cat pee and it took two
reheatings and lengthy simmers to get rid of the odor.

Stone Cellars Pinot Grigio 12 - almost as bad as a
Sauvignon Blanc. Rather muted flavor, all I tasted was
eau de litter box, but thankfully not much of it, and
the finish was grapy and at least recognizable as
cheap wine. Slightly green in color, mostly clear.

Mezza Corona Pinot Grigio 12 - somewhat better, though
this brand has fallen on hard times over the decades
that I have been drinking it. Reminded me of unripe
fruit macerated in rubbing alcohol, in a good way.
Some spicy interest and (still unripe) tropical fruit
on the palate and the finish. Color was very watery.
I'd got this because 3.5 liters was $25; I also picked
up a couple mags of the Pinot Noir but discovered that
the two-bottle discount didn't apply, and they came to
$28; I shudder to open the first of these.

Castillo white rum - rather acrid and chemically. I
used this mostly as a mixer, where it added not much
to the fruit-flavored things (juice and juicelike
products) I put it with.

I got somewhat tired of these delights and made Philip
take me to the liquor store, where I got:

Mayflower porter - nice coffee and chocolate, quite
hoppy, fairly delicious. Philip fell in love with it
and instead of the uberalcoholic uber Pils I got for
him he drank bunches of this, with the result that
he and Court took a field trip next day to replace
it for me.

Wachusett Green Monster IPA - I got this for Rosemary's
brother, who likes hoppy brews. Tasted it to make sure
it was bitter enough for him, which it was, but it had a
peculiar milky tongue-coating veiled aspect, as if it were
ashamed of its bitterness; I found this characteristic
undelicious. On the whole, you can taste the malt, you
can taste the evergreen floral hop thing going on, and
you say, ah, IPA, but in a sort of facsimile way. Not
really Wachusett's best effort.

Small Craft Warning uber Pils - this is from Heavy Seas
in Baltimore; it's a malty sweetish Pilsner with a 7%
alcohol hit. Tastes like an ordinary beer with half a
shot of vodka in it. Luckily it didn't cost any more
than the 5% beers, so the added buzz was just bonus.

Court has these weird moods, and having smoked some
now-legal dope got an outrageous case of the munchies so
convinced Philip to run her down to Cumberland Farms to
get some outlandish snacks. I made another mistake and
took a polite toke - I don't care for the feel of smoke
in my lungs, nor for the taste of the stuff, nor for
its supposed beneficial psychoeffects -; it reawakened
my bronchitis, and for two days I've been coughing my
lungs out again: stupid boy.

Warheads sour chewy cubes - these are gummies about the
same size as sugar cubes, coated in powder that turned out,
disconcertingly, to be sugar.

ChillZicle (a Cumby's exclusive, a knockoff of Popsicles;
the Popsicle people need not lose any sleep) - 

sour apple - amazingly convincing considering there is
zero fruit juice and all the flavor is artificial. Pretty
sour, a little sweet. I used cut-up pieces of this as the
ice in a cocktail that was mostly vodka on the rocks; it
looked awesome. To me it tasted like medicine; Philip
thought it delicious, but to be quite fair he had partaken
of some of the demon weed beforehand.

cotton candy - pale blue, a good thing, but also very
pale in flavor; a hint of sweetness, a hint of sourness,
maybe a suspicion of artificial vanilla flavor. Disappointing.

A blue raspberry version sits in the freezer awaiting my
delectation.

Cumberland Farms mango Italian ice - also quite convincing
despite having no fruit substance in it at all. I believe
that it "cheats" by including some natural flavor. The
texture was hard and nasty, though. Again, a watermelon
version lurks in the freezer waiting for tomorrow.

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