For The Wine Ho On The Go!

Now this is an accessory that every wine ho needs! Baggin the Box has just taken on a WHOLE new meaning if you know what I mean. Forget about sneaking candy and pop into the movies, sneak in your favorite drink!

If your a drunk or support a drunk you need to own this Baggy Wine Tote by Scandinavian Design Center.

My hats off to Jakob, the designer, who thought of this! What creativity, thinking of the true wino who hates drinking cheap house wines provided by certain establishments and needs to sneak in his/her top notch wine to movies, plays, and concerts discretely and under the radar.

This simply fabulous Bag n Box Tote retails for about $60 bucks. Get yours today.

The Wine Vacuum – Store It, Don’t Pour It!

Another handy dandy gadget every wino needs for their wine bar is the the Wine Vacuum. What the heck is a wine vacuum you ask! Well I’m going to try to explain it. Here goes nothing!

Often you buy wine and don’t finish the bottle for whatever reason but you don’t want to waste it and aren’t sure how to preserve it or if you are like me you like to experiment with lot’s of different wines every night and don’t wait for “special” occasions to drink, everyday is a special occasion in my book, hell I’m alive and super healthy that’s worth celebrating!  So there you are in your living room sitting back, feet up immersed into your favorite weekly series or book when you get up to go to bed only to realize you have half of bottle left. Damn it! Your liver is on overload but you don’t want to pour this yummy dinner down the drain…so you need an alternative.

What is one to do? Some would try to insert the cork back into the bottle with great strenuous effort and little success while others are a bit smarter and use decorative wine stoppers. The problem with the cork is that while you may get it back into the bottle it will more than likely suffer breakage and cracking which exposes the wine to oxygen. The decorative wine stopper while cute, also doesn’t stop oxygen from reaching the wine.

Why does that matter?
When you open a bottle of wine it is instantly exposed to air and when wine is exposed to air for any extended period of time, let’s say overnight,  it turns or rather is oxidized or spoiled which tastes flat or stale. In order to finish that lovely bottle of wine that you started you need to remove the oxygen from the bottle and the best tool to do this is a pump which comes in many styles and names. One of my favorite is the Vacu Vin Preserver for $10.99 which comes with one rubber stoppers. The idea behind the pump is that it sucks the air out of the bottle allowing you to get a one or two more days out of the wine. It won’t preserve it forever and every wine is different but I usually get one to two additional drinking days which is more than enough time for me to finish the bottle off before it spoils or goes flat and I don’t have to waste it!

Whether you purchase The VacuVin Pump or whatever, they should all “click” when you’ve successfully extracted all the air from the bottle. This doesn’t take a mental giant to work and is an added benefit to your wine tool kit and your pocket book. Make sure to purchase extra stoppers because more than likely your going to use them, especially if you entertain and have a few bottles of your favorite wine left!

Underoose, Underwear, uh…Wine Wear?

When I was a kid I loved barbie dolls! I spent endless hours lost in make believe with Barbie and Ken. I had the whole nine yards with the fully furnished Barbie mansion, pool, sports car, and sexy, but always naked, Ken–always wondered what happened to his boy parts–the accessories were endless, similar to the American Girl Doll phenomenon today.

Let’s pause for a moment and talk about accessories. Ever since I can remember no matter what toy I had it came with oodles of accessories, from my Holly Hobby Kitchen to Barbie to Cabbage Patch Kids to even  Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head, I had a shit load of accessories for all my darn toys. How the heck did I keep track of all of it? How the heck did my parents afford all of that stuff with six girls and three boys? I had an extensive wardrobe for Barbie, Ken not so much, but Barbie had it all. Anything was possible and never was there a dull moment in my make believe world.  So much so that my Barbie and Ken dolls seemed to be naked more than clothed because I was always “re-outfitting” them…okay well that’s what I told my mom and that is the story I’m sticking to!

I think back on those years with fond memories and wonder why I had to grow up and stop my childlike daydreaming…that is until I came across this website, it addresses both my wino hobby and that little kid in me – Wine Wear! Don’t leave your bottle home without it!  Whether your drinking with friends or drinking by yourself you don’t ever have to feel alone or too grown up to engage imaginary play because with Wine Wear your bottle of wine turns into whatever or whoever you want it to be with the right outfit, from a football player to a chef to a “friend of Bill W”, whatever mood you are in, WineWear.com has the outfit your wine bottle needs.

It is the tea party for adults, but instead of stuffed animals and tea you bring out all your dressed up wine bottles and have wine and cheese! No matter how old you are you can finally let your inner child out. With Wine Wine wear you will always have someone to talk to even when others don’t want to. In fact, the drunker you get it will probably start talking back!

Never drink alone again! Dress up your wine bottle today by visiting WineWear.com to purchase your wine bottle’s full line of clothing. Taking your drinking hobby and imaginary friends to a whole new level!

BTW: They make great gifts too!

“I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux.  It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine  was good company.”  -Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises