My husband and I really like to drink wine. We like white wines, and we are partial to sweeter types like Riesling and that kind that's really hard to spell and includes the letters G, V, W, M and R. G-something-miner. Anyhoo, I went into a store in Boise the other day that has a huge selection of wines, and I asked the sommalier where the white merlots were. He sneered down his nose and said, "Ah, the duplicitously named white merlot." I said, "Huh?" and he replied, "Well, its really pink." Uh, okay.
One of the nearby towns (McCall, for those in the know) has a wine bar/restaraunt, and the entire town is now rocked by a scandal. Yes, this place is charging a $5 decorking fee. You pick out a bottle of wine, tell them you'd like to drink it with your meal, they charge you for the cost of the bottle, then they charge you an additional $5 to uncork it. What the hell is that all about? There is no additional charge if you bring your own corkscrew and uncork it your damn self. Wine people get totally out of control sometimes. And that's often before they've even started drinking.
For anyone who cares, my current favorite is Obsession by Ironstone Winery. Mmm.