Anyone fancy a glass of wine?

**Lev** · February 28th, 2007, 04:42 AM

http://www.fender.com/news/index.php...ay_article=166

**warren0728** · February 28th, 2007, 05:50 AM

naw...i'm waiting for the version that comes with some nice single malt.....

ww

**Lev** · February 28th, 2007, 05:58 AM

I'm waiting for the Guinness Strat! Creamy tones and and dark black finish! I'd say those Fender Custom Shop guys just sit around thinking about what freebies they can get from other companies "Oh, I need a new car, lets call up Ford and make a custom shop Ford Strat"

duhvoodooman*** · February 28th, 2007, 06:01 AM

I like Strats and I like wine, but this still reeks of elitist BS. "...the Merlot is feisty..."??? Oh, please--spare me!

Spudman*** · February 28th, 2007, 08:07 AM

Perfect! Just what every alcoholic guitarist needs.

Robert**** · February 28th, 2007, 08:43 AM

Haha, this whole idea is somewhat ludicrous! Yeah, Spud makes a good point!

**Plank_Spanker** · February 28th, 2007, 08:48 AM

Originally Posted by duhvoodooman

I like Strats and I like wine, but this still reeks of elitist BS. "...the Merlot is feisty..."??? Oh, please--spare me!

It IS elitist BS.........................................

marnold*** · February 28th, 2007, 10:18 AM

Originally Posted by Lev

I'm waiting for the Guinness Strat! Creamy tones and and dark black finish!

You mean like this one? OK, so it's a '51, but still . . .

**Lev** · February 28th, 2007, 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by marnold

You mean like this one? OK, so it's a '51, but still . . .

Nice, great find Marnold - the headstock is a beer mat too far though!

**Plank_Spanker** · February 28th, 2007, 12:32 PM

From another board:

"A lot of people in this country pooh-pooh Fender table wines. This is a pity as many fine American Guitar wines appeal not only to the Fender palate but also to the wine cognoscenti of the lower-midwest.

Black Stump Bordeaux is rightly praised as a peppermint flavoured Burgundy, whilst a good Seattle Syrup can rank with any of the world's best sugary wines.

Château Blue, too, has won many prizes; not least for its taste, and its lingering afterburn.

Old Smokey 1968 has been compared favourably to a Belch claret, whilst the Tennesee Wino Society thoroughly recommends a 1970 Coq du Junior Johnston , which, believe me, has a kick on it like a mule: eight bottles of this and you're really finished. At the opening of the Chatanooga Bridge Club, they were fishing them out of the main sewers every half an hour.

Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is 68 Telecaster Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is 'beware'. This is not a wine for drinking, this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.

Another good fighting wine is Newark Old-and-Yellow, which is particularly heavy and should be used only for hand-to-hand combat.

Quite the reverse is true of Château Chunder, which is an appellation contrôlée, specially grown for those keen on regurgitation; a fine wine which really opens up the sluices at both ends.

Real emetic fans will also go for a Hobart Muddy, and a prize winning Cuivre Reserve Château Bottled Nuit San Wogga Wogga, which has a bouquet like an Goomba's armpit."

**Danzego** · February 28th, 2007, 12:57 PM

This wine guitar is something else....especially the dude who runs the show over at the wine company. I love his whole spiel, especially how his "unique" soil makes it hard for the grapes to grow, which gives them some special character, or all of his other crazy lines. Where do people learn to talk like that? My favorite, which he ends off with:

"Eldred said many people are “asking if they could just buy a bottle of the wine.”

“We can’t compromise the integrity of the project, but the wine is available on a limited basis at only two place in the world now, and that’s Tarbell’s in Scottsdale, Ariz., and the Napa Rose in Anaheim, Calif.,” Eldred said."

Yeah.....integrity. Sorry for the rant, but these "sophisto" types really get on my nerves.

**sunvalleylaw** · February 28th, 2007, 01:09 PM

The "integrity"???? If the wine is any good, doesn't it stand on it's own? Likewise the guitar. Nice enough color I suppose. I guess he means the exclusivity so that rich people will buy the packaged together products at these two "exclusive" places because they are exclusive, not because of the merits or lack thereof.

**Plank_Spanker** · February 28th, 2007, 01:21 PM

It's just another "glass case guitar" with the added hook of ballyhooed wine..................So Biff can impress Tad and regale him with the cost and rarity of the guitar and wine.......................

.............it has nothing to do with real guitar playing.

**sunvalleylaw** · February 28th, 2007, 01:49 PM

I always wish companies I otherwise like would not do this stuff. But I suppose these sales help support the company that sells working instruments to musicians. Up here in SV, we have auctions and such that involve wine and other novelty items that resemble this, along with some really cool stuff. The auctions often benefit good causes and I suppose have a purpose. Does not mean I have to like it though.

**Ro3b** · February 28th, 2007, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by Danzego

This wine guitar is something else....especially the dude who runs the show over at the wine company. I love his whole spiel, especially how his "unique" soil makes it hard for the grapes to grow, which gives them some special character, or all of his other crazy lines.

That's a pretty well-known fact in viticulture. Gravelly or chalky soil=hard times for grape vines=small concentrated fruit=fuller-flavored wine. Which is why wine grown in one area tastes different from wine grown in another. I agree it is kind of silly to fetishize it though.

Terroir aside, $1,000 a bottle is pretty steep. What does the guitar + half case cost, I wonder?

**warren0728** · February 28th, 2007, 03:06 PM

i'm in the advertising biz and i just don't see how a bottle of wine will sell guitars (unless you get prospective buyers drunk off the wine first and then close the sale)

ww

marnold*** · February 28th, 2007, 05:29 PM

Originally Posted by Plank_Spanker

From another board:

I'm glad to see that there are other Monty Python fans out there. For those who don't know, it's a slightly revised version of their "Australian Table Wines" bit from one of their records.

duhvoodooman*** · February 28th, 2007, 07:27 PM

Originally Posted by warren0728

i'm in the advertising biz and i just don't see how a bottle of wine will sell guitars (unless you get prospective buyers drunk off the wine first and then close the sale)

"Hey, dude, I just got my new Strat and a case of wine! C'mon over--we'll get ****-faced and jam for a while!!"

Spudman*** · February 28th, 2007, 08:59 PM

Not to be out done...Gibson is now offering a platinum needle and spoon with the purchase of their "Rock Star Les Paul."

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