This Mah Jam, Yo.

Holy sweet summer treats, Batman. Veruca and I recently made a trip to World Market to explore some inexpensive wines. We were mostly successful, aside from one or two questionable wines, I think we did pretty good.

Today I present to you Jam Jar.



I've been trying to write a review for this stuff for two weeks now, and all I can manage to come up with is "Yum." I know that's not much of a review, but it's the truth. This stuff is freakin yum. It tastes like blackberries, it tastes like pie, it tastes like rich southern picnic desserts. It's got a little bit of a bite in the first glass that gives you that weird clenched jaw feeling for the first two or three sips...(apparently that's what they call "Tannins"...who knew?!) - but after that it's sweet smooth sailing. Seriously, it smells like the raspberry jam I put on my toast, it tastes like sweet, fruity, amazingly wonderful goodness...I think somewhere between raspberry and blackberry preserves and pie. Yes, I said pie...and who doesn't love pie?!

I'm going to say this is a perfect spring red pick. Hell, the bottle accents even remind me of spring picnic table cloths. Even better than the amazing taste is the absolutely awesome price of $9.99 a bottle from World Market, $8.99 if you are a member of their whatever club. Which I am, so I bought 2 bottles and saved $2. Booyah, bishes.

And for you lushes out there you really can't go wrong with a 12.5% alcohol content. For the record the hangover is nearly non-existent. Therefore - Jam Jar South African Sweet Shiraz - I salute you. 3 times now I have been intoxicated by your yumminess, and 3 times you have won.

To the Cellar of Celebration. You win.

After thought - I described this wine to my brother as a drinkable version of the seasonal Raspberry Jam I kept for my morning toast. It also makes for a whirlwind of intoxication - but that could just be hormones and the new moon. I still highly recommend as I've recently started in on my 4th (5th? maybe) bottle.

Disapointment in a Glass

Violet and I recently went to our local World Market looking for something delicious to drink. I found this super adorable bottle of Sweet Pea Apple Wine, they had peach and strawberry flavors; I couldn't decide between them so because it was on sale for $6.00 a bottle I bought both flavors. I was sooo excited to try them because they combined three of my favorite foods, strawberries, apples, and peaches, I even teased my self for a few days by keeping it as an end of the week treat. It was a huge bottle of disappointing.

I decided to try the apple peach flavor first, the first sip was actually really good. I was all yeah nom nom, I even text-ed Violet right away in excitement. Unfortunately the rest of the glass was all downhill. The more I drank the more it tasted like rotten sour fruit, I couldn't even taste apple or peach.

I then tried the strawberry hoping it would be better. That one was even worse, it was still very sour and the strawberry didn't taste like real strawberries; it was more like that sugary artificial strawberry flavoring you find in cheap candy. After half a glass I was feeling very vomitous so I just dumped it.

The only really positive thing I can say about this wine is that the bottles are so unbelievably cute. Totally retro and adorable, I would only ever buy this again to use as a decoration when I redo my kitchen. I'm sorry Sweet Pea but you are getting chucked into the Cellar of Shame!!

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Veruca Vino