Not Your Average Hooch: Weird, Wonderful Booze - a list by tatorandtots

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The holiday season is upon us which means dinner parties and soirees galore. Why show up with just an ordinary bottle of spiked grape juice when you can hand the hostess a real conversation piece? Amazingly, many celebrity and/or wacky booze actually has fabulous ratings. Thus, they're great to drink AND to look at and are a good bet for gifting the person who "has everything." Plus, I love the idea of theming a party after them. Stick some Stones on the stereo AND the table.

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Celebrity Cellars Rolling Stones Blue Etched Glitter Tongue - 2004 Miramonte Syrah

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"Miramonte Winery's multiple medal winning 2004 Syrah is big, bright, complex and harmonious, featuring blackberry, raspberry and cherry flavors and continual accents of lavendder and wild spice.....Each etched bottle takes three weeks to produce...."

Updated Nov 6, 2008

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Fat Bastard Wines

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I bought my first bottle of Fat Bastard wine (a delicious Cabernet) a few years ago merely for the label. I kept buying it for the taste. A really and truly great wine. Even better? They took part in Breast Cancer Awareness month this past October.

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As 2008 rolls into the autumn months of September and October, it is time again to show our support for Breast Cancer Awareness. Breast cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in women in the United States, and for the sixth year in a row- FAT bastard aims to raise awareness and spread hope, by donating 25 cents for every bottle sold up to $75,000. This donation will be used to support breast cancer research, education and screening throughout the country- helping several cancer care organizations that offer a new hope to women and their families. During the donation period, FAT bastard wines will be easy to spot on the shelf wearing the special “Live Large, Spread Hope” necker with an attached enamel pink ribbon pin to wear in show of your support.
This is a cause very close to my heart, so I encourage FAT bastard wine drinkers to support our awareness program and raise their glasses to help spread hope and work towards eradicating breast cancer forever!

Updated Nov 6, 2008

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Barbra Streisand Official Wine Club

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I would join if they had bottles depicting her in Yentl. Hell of a movie.

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Barbra Streisand Official Wine Club


Join the one and only Official BARBRA STREISAND Wine Club!

• NO membership fee!

• Club members receive two bottles of premium BARBRA STREISAND label wines every other month.

• Each shipment includes two bottles (one red/one white) from our boutique collection of wines.

• Wine varieties are carefully selected for you, and will differ for each club shipment (varieties include Cabernet, Chardonnay, Syrah and more…).

• Club members receive 15% off ALL Celebrity Cellars wines, including collectible etched bottles!! (Excludes Wine Clubs)

• Members also receive advance notice and exclusive access to pre-orders of special wine releases and etched wine collections!

• The cost is $59.50 (plus tax and shipping.) That’s a savings of over $10.00 per shipment, just for being a club member!

• By joining, you simply agree to accept the first three shipments. (Processed when your order is shipped every other month)

• NO additional costs or hidden charges!! After three shipments, your club order is automatically processed, unless you choose to cancel your membership.

• Order BARBRA STREISAND Wines Today!

Updated Nov 6, 2008

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Madonna Etched Disco Ball Collection

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Hooch for a stylish hoochie mama....

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This Limited Edition etched wine commemorates the release of Madonna's 11th Studio Album "Confessions on a Dance Floor". It celebrates the return of pop music's favorite Disco Queen to her dance floor roots. The art work features a striking combination etched/paper label on a bottle of Miramonte Winery's multiple award-winning 2004 Syrah.

Each bottle has been individually hand-etched and painted by our studio craftsmen, and features glimmering disco lights and the name Madonna deeply etched and painted in sparkelescent silver, surrounding a high quality die cut label of Madonna on one of her favorite things --- the dance floor!

Miramonte Winery's multiple medal winning 2004 Syrah is big, bright, complex and harmonious, featuring blackberry, raspberry and cherry flavors, and continual accents of lavender and wild spice. It has been aged two full years in premium French and American oak (70%, 30%).

Each etched bottle takes three weeks to produce, is produced entirely by hand, and comes with an Official Certificate of Authenticity

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Celebrity Cellars Rolling Stones Glitter Tongue Wine Set

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It's not cheap but it's pretty damn cool.

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The Rolling Stones Glitter Tongue is one of the single coolest etched wines we've ever produced. And the complete collector set? Beyond cool. It's a little hard to capture the full glitter effect in a web photo --- but in person the shimmering, sparklescent color is incredible. Each bottle is etched and painted entirely by hand, takes about a month to produce, and is individually numbered. This particular set includes a MATCHED, NUMBERED series -- all bottles are the SAME number!

Set includes six beautifully etched wines, each in a different color. The set also includes a specially branded wooden collector box, and an official Certificate of Authenticity!

The wines are as follows:
Red Tongue: 2004 Miramonte Old Vine Zinfandel
Blue Tongue: 2004 Miramonte Syrah
Gold Tongue: 2004 Miramonte Estate Syrah
Green Tongue: 2005 Miramonte Cabernet/Merlot
Orange Tongue: 2004 Miramonte Cabernet Sauvignon
Yellow Tongue: 2005 Miramonte Cabernet/Shiraz

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Koala Blue Wines - About Us

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Olivia Newton-John took off the leather pants and started making a very nice wine 25 years ago..... The Chardonnay is particularly good.

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wine tasting party

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A great gift to bring to a party... or a reason to have one of your own.

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Wine buff or wine bluff, it's up to you. Slip wine bottles into numbered wine bags. After tasting each wine, guests take a guess. Even if no one correctly identifies the wine, engaging conversation is guaranteed. Exclusively from RedEnvelope.

* wine bags made of faux-suede
* set includes four wine bags, a faux-suede wine tasting guide, four faux-suede scorecard holders with pencils, five printed menus and forty printed scorecards
* wine not included

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Pennsylvania Dutch Egg Nog (and my Way-Too-Easy XMas Recipe!)

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Ok, here it is: the "off-the-top of my head, easy as getting a light in Hell" recipe for when you are in a holiday-cooking time crunch:

(Sorry, I only measure when baking. Not cooking. You have to eyeball it.)

Aside from baking (or microwaving, if your oven is occupied) the sweet potatoes and reheating the finished dish for a few minutes, this takes all of about five minutes and can be made a day ahead.

Mash up cooked sweet potatoes.
Add melted butter, a bit of nutmeg, cinnamon, brown sugar (not too sweet- these aren't the main flavors of this version)
Pour in a cup or two of eggnog. You're aiming for the sweet potatoes to absorb most of the liquid. That's why we're not calling this soup ; )
Blend it just enough to get out the chunks unless you're going the souffle route.
Put it into a serving dish.
Crumble oatmeal cookies on top.
Ta da.

Of course, when I have the time I've prettied this baby up a bit and served it in everything from individual holiday teacups to souffle ramekins. But that's just for when you're going all Martha on it.

Sounds simple stupid. And it is. Yet every single time I serve it I have people ask me for the recipe. Probably just because it's a bit different than the usual sweet potatoes and marshmallow combo. But seriously, I've had mini-freakouts from guests. "You put EGGNOG in with SWEET POTATOES?? That's GENIUS!" I always feel like I re-invented the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup or something. Sigh.

Updated Dec 17, 2008

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