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** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Hi, I'm Elle. I'm based in Auckland, New Zealand. I'm the mother of two young adults, the wife of an entrepreneurial gamer and the Queen of Unfinished Projects. This blog will contain poems, short stories, possibly photos and book reviews if you're lucky, and my thoughts on a variety of topics. Hope you enjoy it. |
I bought some wine today. But more than that, I signed up for a wine subscription.  It'll be interesting to see how it goes.So you take a brief multi-choice test about your preferences. For instances, I noted that I don't drink coffee and I like pinot noir and chocolate. That kind of thing gives them an idea of my taste. I also noted that I don't drink white wine. Then they send me wines, and I have to give feedback on the wines, so they can learn more about what I do and don't like and therefore are more likely to send me wines I like in future. Cool, huh? I just signed up for 3 bottles a month. And I went for the 'easy drinking' option which is the cheapest. Because honestly, we have some fine wines in our collection that we're saving for special occasions or cellaring, and we just need some 'everyday' wines. And these are a reasonable price per bottle, about what I'd pay if I went to the supermarket and bought a bottle of wine. They had a deal on today for a box of three wines with one 'better' wine and two 'easy drinking' wines, for slightly cheaper than the regular price for three 'easy drinking' wines, so I bought that too. Yup, I'm a sucker. So there's six mystery red wines headed my way. And then I got an email saying that the Wooing Tree Tickled Pink wine was available for sale. It's a pink (rose) dessert wine. I haven't come across one of those before. I've tried a number of white dessert wines, some of which are okay, some of which are awful. I love Clearview Estates Sea Red which is a red dessert wine, and I'm always on the lookout for red dessert wines. But I thought this pink one would be interesting. It didn't mention honey as one of the flavours, so that's a good start. I have discovered I don't like dessert wines with a honey flavour. Wooing Tree also had a 'Beetlejuice' pinot noir, so I grabbed a bottle of that too, since Steve loves the Beetlejuice movie. I know, that's just being a sucker for advertising again, but whatevs. So yeah, I have seven red wines and a pink dessert wine on their way. Will let you know how they go! |
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