 NJBruit22.com here with a quick cheap wine reviews. What am I doing here again? Yeah. Cheap wine reviews. Let me get this case. I got a case of this saddle bread acceleros. Let me get this out of my way. God, I'm really not organized today. Anyway, today we're going to check out the Peacock Creek Shiraz from Australia. 2016. I got to score a good deal over at Shoprite. Wines and liquor or spirits, whatever it's called. I think it's $5.99 a bottle. I couldn't really find anything about it online. It's imported by this company called Monseur Toutan. They don't list anything. There's no notes. There's no write-up about it. I love it. This is something that I really can enjoy. There's nothing pretentious. It's just 14%. It's $5.99 a bottle. Let me get rid of this. $5.99 a bottle. First of all, I like the way it tastes watered down. That's a big, big key. Straight-up taste. I'm not going to tell you what it tastes like. I'm just going to tell you if it's good or not. I'm not going to sniff it. I'm just going to frickin' drink it. It's not as good as the saddle bread. It's Pinot Noir which we tried last time. This was only 12%. Real quick note, even though this is 12%, you think I could drink two bottles and be okay? This really didn't pass the two-bottle test because the way I drink it, when I drink two bottles, I always water it down a certain percentage. That keeps me hydrated and also prevents the bad hangover. Because this wine tasted great straight, it didn't taste like anything when I watered it down. So I had to make a higher concentration of wine to water. So instead of doing at least one part water, one part wine, I did almost two parts wine, one part water, and I think I drank it too strong. Two bottles? No, no. I need to be able to water it down sufficiently so I can maintain a level of hydration. Because you tend to forget to drink in between. If I drank straight up, I would have to drink like, you know, a quart of wine in between glasses. I don't know. But this, I'll tell you right now, has a very nice well-balanced taste. There's nothing, you know, like striking about it in any particular way. It just tastes good. Both straight, I mean this tastes one more time. You know, it tastes just fine. Okay, for the wine snobs out there, sure it's not as sophisticated, multi-layered, but it's a pleasant, non-offensive, stop thinking about wine so much. It's good, it doesn't bother me. Nice, nice smooth taste, okay? So I'm not going to go on and on about it today. But for 5.99 and 14%, it's a good deal. And it works watered down better than some of the other wines I've had. I mean there's some wines that are fantastic watered down. Where you can water it down almost one part wine to two parts water. And it's like really hydrating. It's a great summer drink. But now it's getting cold. I think it's below freezing tonight. This works out well. I think one to one, even more watered down than, you know, some of the other weaker, weaker wines. So that's it. I'll come back. I think my battery's dying on this camera. But I'll come back if I make it past a bottle or two. That's it. We'll see what happens. Hey, I'm back here with, this is a, I rarely do a second take. I normally do two takes, like a first and a finish. But I'm going to open up the second bottle right live on the njroute22.com pre-recorded, what do you call it? Cheap wine reviews vlog. But what I wanted to talk about real quick here as I crack into the bottle number two. And by the way, this is pre-hydrated. This is two to one. I'm going to do two to one, two parts water, one part wine. Wow. Obviously the cup gets wider. Yeah, maybe it's like 1.5 to 0.75. Who knows? I put the cord behind me because it made, it kind of framed my face funny. I didn't like the way it looked. And I totally forgot why I'm doing the second part here. Oh, a lot of people like pay like great respect to wine reviewers and all these snooty people that have authority in the wine industry. Industry, as our president says. See, look at this. I'm pouring the wine in and boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And it looks like it was about, you know, third, fifth of the bottle. And I spell it all over my workbench. I have paper towels somewhere. I'll clean it up later. I think way too many people put some, I have some towels here. Be right back. They put too much worth in what other people have to say. And that sort of contradicts what I'm doing here. But this is more of a conversation than it is me telling you. I think I'm a little bit of an authority when it comes to the phoniness of the wine industry. But you can't believe me. You have to look at it yourself. You have to look at it yourself and say, what am I buying into? What am I buying into? Challenge everything. Challenge me. I don't care. Please challenge me. Because I would love to have a conversation. Please, everybody, I've had conversations with about the ridiculousness or the almost absurd aspect of the wine industry. The fanciness. And like you have to tiptoe around everybody. No, no, stop tiptoeing around. If you're going to pay $40 or $100 for a bottle of wine, what are you paying for exactly? It's my point. It's almost exactly, it mirrors the whole art industry. Like supply and demand and popularity. Think about it. Like an artist, you can find a good artist that's barely making a living, that makes beautiful work that you like. The minute it becomes work that everybody likes or because people start reviewing it and it becomes popular and then the price goes up and for no reason. Supply and demand usually dictates price. Like for instance, if something is in short supply, the price usually goes up. And if it's in great abundance, the price usually goes down. That's how capitalism works. We have too much of it. We're not going to be able to sell it if everybody has it. The minute one person sells it for less and the next person has to sell it for less and people always gravitate towards the lower price. But it's the opposite in things like the art industry and I'm sure you can pick up on other things. Like for instance, a car, like a Mercedes S550, right? Or whatever it's called, S550. Man, that's refreshing. This is very good. Very good. It's worth more. It's 100 grand. It's like a $100,000 car because the quality of the component. It's not as cheap as a Toyota Corolla. Think about it. It's better physically. It has better components. It's a larger car. It's made with better leather. It has solid doors. It's going to last longer. Let's just not talk about it. It's going to cost more to fix. But regardless, the car is worth more because it is worth more. But when you have a 750 milliliter bottle of wine, how can you say one is worth $599 like this? And how is something worth $50 or $100 or $300 a bottle? What makes this liquid inside that much more costly? It's not like, hey, this is tin and this is gold. It's opinion. It's reputation. It's nonsense when you think about it. Alcohol like wine gives you a buzz. That's one aspect of it. The second aspect and only the second, there's really only two aspects. There's the buzz and then how does it taste? Well, and then of course our little thing is how do you feel the next day, depending on how much you drink, how crappy do you feel? And then there's another layer they throw in there just to fricking complicate them. And how does it pair with this food? Pairing, pairing, pairing. No, stop pairing. Please. Drink what you want and eat what you want. Who gives a crap? Does anybody ever pair like a diet doctor pepper with something? Hey, this diet doctor pepper pairs better with a whopper than it does with a big man. No. No, no, no, no, no. It bothers me to no end that they add all this stuff into the mix to confuse people. Gosh, it's crazy. And again, I will not deny the fact that there are differences in quality. I mean, I'd be more interested in the chemical composition like poisons and toxins and so on. And I would love to see nutrition facts on the back of these bottles like carbs, sugar, protein, fat and all that and other stuff. But they don't require that on alcohol. I don't know. So even if it's nothing and it's insignificant, I'd still want to see that label. It sucks that they don't have that label. I'm rambling here. But my middle thing is that people tend to go to wines when these reviewers or these high-profile celebrities have something to say about something. And that to me really drives me nuts is $5.99. How come no wine spectator magazine is talking about this? I mean, I'm sure they do. And I don't read that crap on purpose. I stumble on it every now and then. But they feature these things. And I don't know how many tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of subscribers they have that read it and follow along like puppets, like little lemmings. Oh, hey, this Blank Blank Creek wine was great. Let's go buy it because somebody wrote words about it. Again, I mean, I'm sort of doing the same thing here. So I'm kind of contradicting myself. At least I'm honest. But I think I'm giving a shout out to the underrated companies. Peacock Creek. Shiraz. Shiraz. I don't know. I don't know. I don't give a crap. To me, it's a Shiraz. I like it. Who knows? I may feel like hell tomorrow. I may be on a fucking gurney in the morning. I don't know. Curtis, a thank you card. Because this is actually a really, really good wine. For now. I may wake up in the morning and send Curtis some sort of suspicious package. She's just kidding. Why do I have to even say just kidding? You know I'm just kidding. Why do I have to cover my bases? Oh, yeah. I better say just kidding. Just in case somebody calls the cops on me because I made some sort of weird threat. Oh, suspicious. Shut the f up. By the way, I'm going to put a little link here. I hope. To Tim Hawkins. What are Christian curse words? If you can't use curse words, it's hilarious. Please see this video. The Pat Sajak and Bob Barker and references had me crying. It was pretty good. But anyway, that's it. I'm going to come back when I'm done with this and then say good night and so on and so forth. It's freezing. It's like 37 degrees. Um, and that's it. I really think it's important. I'll just say this really quickly. It's important to realize that nobody's important, including myself. Nobody's important when it comes to what you like. Um, try not to let people, like the popular culture and the trends of the world dictate what you like. And just because everybody likes it and it's cool to like it or whatever it may be. Don't let that guide you. You like what you like. You shouldn't like... This is why I like the fact that there was no write up on this and the fact that I couldn't find a single solitary thing said about this Peacock Creek wine online. I wasn't looking for it. I just wanted to see if there was something I could reference. And the fact that there's nothing that kind of makes me happy. You know, it's like maybe no one caught on to it. Maybe they didn't buy off the right people. Maybe they didn't, I don't know, pad the pockets of the people that control the wine media. You know, just think about it. The media, they have media too. They have what, I don't know, half a dozen wine magazines or wine websites. I don't think any of these other wine publications, or I don't think there even are any, but they're independent blogs like mine that I don't know, maybe I'm not using the right keywords. I'm going to put a lot of Peacock Creek into my keywords for this blog post as well as YouTube video and the half a dozen or quarter dozen I think I use Instagram Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest. I hate Pinterest. You have to create these tall, no. I think I'm going to delete almost everything except Instagram. I think I'm just going to keep Instagram. Maybe Twitter. I don't know how many followers we have but Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest are left and I think I'm just going to keep Instagram. I heard that's the way to go but Instagram doesn't get people to your website so you have to put all sorts of graphics and like, hey, come here and I don't know. I don't like social media. Sorry. 599. Oh by the way I forgot to mention one thing most other websites had this, they said list price was $13.99 and most websites had this on sale for $9.99 $10 a bottle so if you find it at Shop Right Wines and Spirits or Wines and Liquors or Liquors and Wines or Wines and Spirits, whatever it's called it's 599 a bottle buy a case. It's good. I'll let you know tomorrow how I feel but I love rambling. I really do. There's not too many people in this world that can appreciate how people can invent themselves or reinvent themselves as they're speaking and then come up with something new to say they just want easily edited and oh we said this we said that and that's the end graphics music no. This is this is long you should probably be watching while you're getting some sort of IV drip or something I don't think anybody would have an hour to watch me ramb because it's not that funny unless you're my friend and you're just standing around and we're just doing stuff that's it. Anyway I'm going to pause the video finish this bottle and I'll come back with a recap hey there njroute22.com third take final take for the Creek Shiraz 2016 from Australia I like it the peacock creek wine was great I will add in the comments section if I was like whoa dizzy for three days I'll mention but if I don't mention it if I don't mention it it was like bad in any way and then just assume it was it passed the test I'm done trying to say if it passed the test I like I like this wine for $5.99 god damn it's a good deal even if I feel a little bit crappy tomorrow it's still a good deal because it was only $5.99 the wine passed the test