Today I bought a bottle of Mateus and a bottle of Lancers for our 60's party. Fortunately I wasn't

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recognized. I do like rosé and I remember when these used to be my idea of sophistication but I tried the Mateus and it is so bad I couldn't finish a glass. At least I'll have the bottle to melt candles in and let them drip all over. I'm afraid to try the Lancers--and the bottle is transparent, not like the dipped ones that I used to think were so cool.

Any ideas on what to do with undrinkable rosé?

 
A bottle of Mateus...

Ah does that take me back. Picture it! 1979!!!

I was appointed the oldest to go buy booze (a babe who was not of legal age). I would come home from school, put on a suit, grab my briefcase, and buy a paper on the way to the store. Always passed.

And what was that one freak request?

OK, 2 bottles of rum, a bottle of vodka, a bottle of gin, and...

The bottle of Mateus...

Have a great time my friend.

 
pour it down the drain?

seriously, I couldn't even bring myself to cook with that stuff, much less drink it. Ditching it down the drain sounds like the only viable option.......cheers, Bonnie

 
I used to admire its slight sparkle. Now It tastes more like someone put a fizzie in a bottle of

Sutter Home. An artificial cherry-flavored fizzie.

Someone stop me before I go buy fizzies! Not everything from the sixties is worth remembering.

 
Can I at least distill it to light the chafing dish for the fondue?

Or if I pour it down the drain will it at least clean it on the way down?

 
The summer between my junior and senior high school years I was able to grown a mustache,

something my two older brothers still couldn't do. For that one brief summer I was incredibly popular with them and their friends! After years of being picked on I was in heaven.

Mostly beer though. Your gang sounds more sophisticated despite the Mateus. It's amazing how lenient things were then.

 
All I can think of is a good bottle for a candle. But we really should be able to come up with a

use for the contents. We're creative enough aren't we?

 
I remember being amazed at how easy Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill went down. It was...

...a "gateway" liquor to us... more of an entry-level bottle of booze because it basically tasted like Kool Aid.

Once I began enjoying real wine, I never looked back, obviously. To this day a nice glass of wine calls to me.

Michael

 
Don't forget "a little" Blue Nun! By the way, most undrinkable wines work in a sangria

especially after you fortify the mess with brandy and triple sec. I've also had success throwing in otherwise unsatisfactory homemade limoncello, so there you are.

 
Steve you are so right...Throw it in the pitcher with brandy and triple sec and you are...

good to go!

(but don't forget the citrus and the sweet!)

Did you know? There is no Blue Nun in Germany?

That is a marketing ploy to make a huge big "hairy buffalo" of all the German plonk wines, put them in a blue bottle with a fancy label, and get Americans to buy it.

Much the same way as "Jägermeister" swept the US. It's a "turd" third-rate German herbal that was ready to die out (there are so many wonderful ones) and they shipped the plonk over here and marketed it to frat boys. The Germans are still laughing about it and how much Americans love their "Jägermeister".

But then, Americans have been hoodwinked over much less fluff according to P.T. Barnum...

 
But Stiller and Meera's radio commercials for Blue Nun were so funny! "I'm having a party !'

"May I suggest a Little Blue Nun?"

"I don't know... it's mostly couples."

(For you children out there, I'm discussing Ben Stiller's parents.)

 
what if you combined it with some white vinegar and let it age for some wine vinegar? vinegar

is cheap, might be worth a try?

 
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