Friday, October 14, 2005
Mushroom Pizza Beverage
I should know better than to try and order wine from a small bar that mainly serves beer, shouldn't I?Huz and I went to a bar last night to listen to a friend perform (it's Nashville, you know, so everyone here is a musician of some kind - including our noisy neighbors). It was a small bar located right below a strip club. Ick. That's the closest I've ever been to that kind of place and the closest I ever want to come. Besides hearing the thump.thump.thump. of the gyration-inducing music upstairs, there was no contact with that establishment and the one below. Thank God for that. This little bar has open-mic night for community musicians and song-writers, so that's why our friend was there.
Anyway, I started with a rum and coke because it's easy to order and any bar can make it, plus it's hard to screw up (unless, of course, they jip me on the rum). Then, I wanted a glass of wine. Big mistake. I had Huz get me a glass of shiraz while I lounged on the nice leather couch and listened to the musicians on the stage. He came back and handed me my wine which I brought to my nose and then to my lips. Whoa. Something was not quite right and I'm not even a wine snob. It smelled like mushroom pizza and it tasted like the bath water of a dog. A dirty, flea-infested dog. I'm not exaggerating; it was sick. I tried a few more sips (trying to grin and bear it so that I didn't have to bring it back - I get embarrassed by that for some reason), but I couldn't do it. I brought it back up to the bar where the bartender didn't look a day over nineteen. I told her that I thought the wine was corked because it tasted bad. She was like, "What? It doesn't taste good? Wanna 'nother one?" I said yes please and asked how long the bottle had been open. She said, "Oh probably a week or two."
Um, yeah. Can you say oxidation? Shudder.
So, she grabs an oh-so-classy glass-sized bottle of Sutter Homes cheap red wine, unscrews the cap (oh yeah!), and pours me a new glass. It wasn't fancy and it wasn't great, but at least it didn't have a bouquet of fungus! |
