Also - I thought the rhino on the label was a cat at first glance.

Today I dug a grave for a stranger's cat, so it's a wino night tonight, let me assure you. 

I'm basically brain-dead after a laborious-turned-emotional day - I'm fairly spent, although the combo of yard work and comforting a grieving pet owner feels nice.  I'm nice.

Tonight's selection:
Wine:  "Fat Bastard" Shiraz 2011, by Fat Bastard Wine Company
Origin:  Frrrrahnce
Price:  $14.95
CC score: 3.5 of 5 =  MEH-and-a-half

As a rule I never purchase French wines (I remember the Bikini atoll, you fuckers!), but I was in Thamesford and the selection at the LCBO agent was very, very, very limited, and I was not prepared to bring home the Maria Christina (**teenage barfing flashback**).  I do enjoy the Shirazes AND I love swearing and swears and lo, le Fat Bastard voulez vous'd itself home with me ce soir.  And the name reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHa_SQB8NB0&feature=relmfu.

Remarkably full bodied the label says.  Wonderful color [sic] and ROUND rich palate the label says.  Although it rates high on the drinkability scale (prestone would also fare well on that scale tonight, mind you) and it IS a nice glass-of, but it truly pales beside my favored Chilean, Australian, and now South African (thank-you A Place In The Sun!) whorish new-world Shirazes.  It is a mellower, milder Shiraz yet still almost a mouthful.  It might have received a 4 but I have not yet forgotten France's nuclear atrocities to the South Pacific.  AND I NEVER WILL.  I think that's a form of transference...

May the semi-precious stones of my hippie-made necklace protect me from France's eternal damnation.