 Hey there, NJRoot22.com here with another installment of the Cheap Wine Reviews. I can call it Cheap Wine Review, but it's Cheap Wine Reviews. And today, we're going to talk about the Dona Aramalinda Tinto Red. It's a 2015 out of Portugal. I kind of did some research, but I mean, what goddamn difference does it make about the whole history? And I looked on this, you go to idlewines.com. It's A-I-D-I-L-wines.com. And you can read about, they have dozens of different wines from Portugal, Chile, and all these other places. This particular wine, the Dona Aramalinda, is about some wine maker that croaked. His name was like Manuel or something, and then he left the wine business to his wife. And now it's like some female kind of eccentric wine company. And apparently this lady, Leonor Fritas, was featured on the cover of Forbes Magazine back in March of 2017. She's like really filthy rich and has this massive wine winery. You should see the picture. Let me show you. It may not show up too well, but this is their winery. It looks like a giant fricking factory of some kind. Look at that. The focus? I think so. I don't know. But I got this wine as a special buy over at Shop Right Wines and Liquor over in Clinton, New Jersey. My buddy over there, Curtis, he mentioned it to me because he knows I like wines in the $5 to $10 range. He said this one is actually like a $10 to $15 bottle if it wasn't scooped up as a special buy. This is the 2015. I think the 2014 may have been better, but it's 14% alcohol. And I'm starting to mix my wine with high alkaline water. It's 8.8 to 9.1. Apparently alkaline water is really good for you. So anyway, I wanted to talk about this. I'm not going to get into the pairings and the tastings and the finish. I got to tell you one thing about this wine that immediately stood out. And it had nothing to do with the fact that someone recommended it to me. And I started tasting this and drinking this before I read anything about it. But I'm going to taste it here. I water my wine down at least 2 to 1, sometimes 3 to 1, sometimes 4 to 1, depending. But this wine has a very full flavor. I have to say, it was $7.99 like I said. $7.99 wines don't normally have this kind of complexity. I don't give a flying rat's tail about the complexity. I just want to get a good buzz and feel good the next day. Not have liver problems like I'm having right now. I shouldn't be drinking. I probably will die if I finish two bottles. I'm going to try my best to survive. I'm laughing, but I don't know what happens when your liver goes bad. And I've been doing good in September. I think I've only drank eight or nine times so far in the month of September. Which is pretty good considering I'm filming this. I believe the 28th or 29th of September. That's good for someone who normally drinks three or more days a week. Whatever happened to this drinking on Friday night, I remember days when I worked at nine to five. I would drink on Friday night, maybe. If I was feeling bold, I would drink at happy hour with the dope set at the computer department. We would go to Hula Hands. And it was fun back then. There was a lot of fun people there. But you'd drink on Thursday night and drive home after like six beers. And go to work the next day and have whatever. But drinking one day a week. I think that whole tradition is gone. But anyway, I want to get back to this whole little wine. I am not a wine connoisseur at all. I drink two bottles and see how I feel the next day type guy. But I have to say, who knows? Maybe after a year of doing these stupid reviews, I'm going to be a wine expert. I'm going to know the difference between a piece of junk and a wine that's actually good. But I focus on how I feel. And also the taste too. Obviously, if something tastes like turpentine or rat piss, I'm not going to recommend it. But this is a very good tasting wine compared to all the other, I think I've done about 10 or 11 or 12 episodes of this vlog for the njbu22.com. And I didn't bring my little flyer today. But whatever, who cares? This, I'm about to kick bottle number one here. And as you can see here, I use these Starbucks cups. Or sometimes I use a glass, a glass mason jar. But it's extremely refreshing. Especially when watered down. It's great, straight. Let's say you're having a formal dinner and you don't want to look like a fool like I do watering my down in a plastic Starbucks cup. Drinking it with a steak and so on. Eat meat only, by the way. You shouldn't really eat. Human beings eat too many vegetables. Those vegans out there are squirming when I talk about this. But you really shouldn't eat too many vegetables. I'll tell you from personal experience, I took many months off from eating vegetables. And I had some onions and red peppers and some tomato today with a delicious organic omelet I made. And I felt really in pain. When you don't eat vegetables for an extended period of time and you eat especially nightshade vegetables, it does a number on you. I mean, try it. Try to take a week off from all vegetables and then eat vegetables alone. And you're going to notice something. You're going to say, wait a minute, this doesn't feel right. Anyway, so I'm going to come back after I crack into this second bottle here. But the Dona Aramalinda Tinto Red Wine from Portugal. It's from the peninsula in the central region of Portugal if that makes any damn bit of difference. I don't care if they make it in a lab in some greenhouse in Newark, New Jersey. I don't care. The wine has to have a wine taste and not a crappy liver pain feeling the next day. So I'll come back and finish this one up. I don't know how long I'm going to be doing these little reviews because it really should be a 30 second. Was it good? Did it taste good? How do I feel in the morning? That's how it should be. But I ramble on because I'm drinking. Don't forget the alkaline. And that's it. And this is not sponsored by anybody. I bought it at Wegmans in Bridgewater today. A six pack was like 750. Six quarts of alkaline water. Oh, by the way, alkaline water is actually good for you. But if you want to set your house up to have alkaline water like 9.5, it's like a $5,000 contraption. Holy mackerel. You can buy Brita-like pitchers to have alkaline water. And they're about between $50 and $80 or $100 for a quality one. And then you need $20 filters. They're not like the Brita filters, which I think you can get $3 for $20. These filters cost a lot of money and there's a lot of fake reviews online. So be careful. Just do your research. Talk to somebody who knows who has a high quality pH tester. But alkaline water apparently is like the key to long life and good health because apparently you can't survive. And that's beyond not eating sugar or carbs. But I'm rambling. See, I ramble when I drink. So I'm going to finish this. I'm going to pop this. I'll top off my Starbucks. This is kicking bottle number one. We're going to add some alkaline water to my little cocktail here. Mmm. And this spent a week in Massachusetts. And holy crap, could I tell you a lot about Massachusetts that I don't like? But there's a lot of things I do like. But there's something profoundly different about it. It's only like, you know, 300 or 400 miles away from any part in New Jersey. 400 tops. But Massachusetts is weird. Holy, it's amazing just going like an eight hour or four six or eight hour drive away from the garden state how you can pick up instantly the number of different things going on. But I'm going to save that to private cocktail party discussions and not public YouTube videos. And by the way, if I did 30 second videos, I don't think I would get, I'm never going to reach the monetization level of YouTube. They just don't want honest good creators to make any money on YouTube. So I will be back with my slurred take two of, or section two of this silly little video. And I went about 10 minutes, 11 minutes. I saw something outside. I don't know, was it an animal? God knows. 11 minutes in for the first take. Maybe I think I did took me three times to start. So I'll see you back in about, it'll take me about two hours. And I'll be back when I finish my next NJRoot22.com. I'm back here again. It's like freaking 3am. I'm on my last little cup of cup. This is like a, this is like a, it docked my jet ski in this freaking glass of wine. That cup of wine. Anyway, I'm back here. I've been kind of in the fence because we have a sick dog. And I just took like a week long vacation, quote unquote vacation. I'm kind of exhausted. And like a lot of things have been kind of like, heavy duty kind of, you know the deal, right? And so I'm not in the most fired up mood, even though I'm kind of energetic, I'm not in the most fired up happy kind of mood. But to get back to this, the purpose of this, this blog is that this wine here, I have to say is so far, this is not tomorrow morning, this Erma Linda is at the present time going to be in our rotation, I think. Because it's good. It's really, really a really good wine. I can tell from how I feel at the moment. I don't know how I'm going to feel tomorrow, but in terms of how I feel as I'm drinking it, it really is in the top 10%, I think. And I think, by far, I mean, I don't think there's any 10% wine I'm drinking currently, like those Explorer doors or any of the other wines I've drank or consumed in the last 10 or so videos. I buy them for financial reasons, mostly. But this one fits the financial model and it actually is pretty good. I'm freezing cold right now, I don't know why. Like when it's like 50 degrees out in September, I have crickets somewhere in this stupid ass garage. But I'm going to give this, I may not film my morning after, I may just put a comment in my blog post, which you should read blog post. Don't just read YouTube. I mean, YouTube is good and I'm doing this for YouTube, but my video here, by the way, if you're watching this on YouTube, go on my blog, njroute22.com. I prefer anybody who watches this to watch it on my blog, because I get credit for the ad views and as well as the YouTube views as well. It's just something I created. You know what I mean? It's not like I'm using somebody else's platform. I'm using somebody else's platform for the video distribution, because it's free and there's a whole lot of give back and trade offs that you have to do. I can host my own video, but that would cost me money and so on. You can't really monetize hosted video. I mean, you can. There's a few companies out there that do it, but unless you're like a million view per video person, it doesn't really make sense. Right now, I'm doing this on YouTube. Notice how I go off on tangents a lot? I go off on tangents a whole lot, because they're all related. You have to go off on tangents. And that's why, hang on a second, I'm going to pause the video and I'm going to come back because I didn't click my external lights. There's some studio here. I don't have like Canon Mark 5D, 20, you know, like 3500 camera. I'm using a 10 year old first generation DSLR, a micro four thirds, which I knew when it came out that that was the way to go. There's smaller lenses are great. Anyway, I can go on and on. Let's get back to the point here. The Erma Linda, I think it's Erma Linda. That's how I would say it. Could be Erma Linda. The accent you need to use. This is unique for a couple of reasons, because I didn't choose it by myself. I had a little help from Curtis at Shop Bright Wines and Liquors in Clinton. And it's not a promotion. I'm not paid. Nobody's giving me like pokes to promote them. I'm doing it on my own free will. I really like the wine. I stayed up a little bit late tonight. I should have gone to bed at midnight, but it's 3 a.m. And that's how it works. But I think this is like, why is this bottle taking up the center of the screen? I think this is a good wine. It's going to be in my rotation for as long as Shop Bright has it for Shop Bright Wines and Liquors. It's not Shop Bright. It's owned by Quick Check. It's so fricking bizarre. How can a Shop Bright Wines and Liquors be owned by Quick Check? It's retarded. Wines are called Quick Check Liquors. Why do they have to be under the Shop Bright brand name? It's so stupid. Although, I think that's a really good place to shop for wine. In Clinton, you know, one of my last videos, I really edited the Living Daylights out of it. I mean like, I cut like 90% of it out because I was rambling. It was like a two-hour video. I made like a motion picture-length video because I got hung up on stuff. I get hung up on stuff very easily here. And that's being honest, you know. I don't know. So what are the key takeaways from this Dona? Dona? Dona? Dona? I don't even... D-O-N-A. How would you say D-O-N-A? Dona or Dona? It's not definitely a Dona. Dona is two ends. Dona. I think Dona is the right way. You could be D-O-N-A. I don't even know how to say it. I think it's so far. I can tell... Here's one thing. Here's a really good perception I have about this wine. I can tell it's cleaner. And I hope that translates into not feeling as crappy in the morning. I want to say curse words so bad. So I'm a very profane individual. I'm extremely profane. I curse. It's nobody's business. And I think it shouldn't really matter. There's words. There's sounds. You can hear whatever sound you want to hear. I'm going off on a tangent. You can tell I'm going off on a tangent. I'm using a wide angle lens. It's cool. This is my favorite lens. It's like a freaking 1200-hour lens. This Lumix. But the 7 to 14mm which translates to 14 to 28mm in regular 35mm lens terminology or whatever. Look how cool it is. It's completely... It's such a cool lens. I've used this lens in my life for the last 10 years. It's still one of the top lenses for Micro Four Thirds. It's great. I think I don't know what the millimeters I am at but it's perfect. It's not a good low-light lens and I think they have a newer version but I love it. It's really a good lens for taking property photos and so on and so forth. But what the fuck am I talking about? This is not a photography vlog. Ah! I get... This is why it's entertaining to watch somebody vlogging while drinking. You know what I mean? Because like you... I have a zero script here. This script I have here is from the Laia vlog. I wrote, I don't know when like a week or two or three or five ago. Shall I conclude one more time and try to conclude? It's already another 10 minutes. It's like a 20 minute rambling. This is, I recommend it. Fucking crickets got in here but I'm going to pour the rest in here. Pour the rest of this in here because it's alkaline. Alkaline. Alkaline. Wasn't he like a baseball player or something like that? Here's the summary. Refreshing. I don't feel like there's impurities in it. It was grown in like sandy limestone climate. I bet you there's hardly any pesticides on it. I love this wine. So far. I'll tell you tomorrow in the comments or in the blog post whether it passed the two bottle test. Reminder that the two bottle test may be invalidated because I was feeling crappy all day today because of my liver issue. But I can tell you right now that I like this wine and I'm going to buy it again. I'll buy it at least one more time and if the second time I buy the feeling isn't the same I will revise my feeling about it. But so far in a very daring drinking when I shouldn't be drinking scenario I think this does a damn good job. So gets a thumb up for now. Imagine you're watching this 20 minute video like I'll probably edit down in 15 minutes because I may edit out some of the stupid tangents. But I would feel really crappy for saying all these great things about this wine and how I feel if the end point says well guys the whole thing what did dad say we're calling off the vacation call off the vacation for just Irma Linda because I'm like dizzier than like a space cadet and like some sort of like testing program where they spin you around you know I don't know I mean maybe tomorrow my whole day will be ruined because I can't get out of bed I don't know but I can almost I'm not going to feel that way I'm going to hydrate it more with my alkaline alkaline alkaline water and just go to sleep it's like 315 I think my phone with me I bet you a lot of you are panicking right now like what if I didn't have my phone on me where is it I don't have it it's somewhere it's in my office somewhere but that's it you don't know how bad I have been with this rambling I cut out almost more than half of my videos but that's it this is it's like 51 degrees here in western New Jersey and that's it I wish I had a live show where there was like like a million people watching because I would have a ball talk show I mean I've done radio shows in the past I've done TV interviews in the past on mainstream media shop bright liquors special by 7.99 a bottle 14% alcohol a red wine a pinto and I think it's really good I'm gonna put it up to my my picky significant other and I bet you she will switch to this wine but I'm gonna tell her here's the secret okay by the way she'll never watch my video the secret is I'm gonna tell her it was the worst wine ever I'm gonna say it tastes like shit sorry I'm gonna bleep that out and she'll want me to buy it for every time guaranteed if I said I loved it she would find a reason to not like it isn't it weird how you connect with the people or the people that you meet up and end up with I thought it was in the garbage can I missed it went into the basin okay I'm not doing it tomorrow morning I'm gonna put a comment in the blog okay I'm done this is the test tonight I feel great I'm going to bed njroute22.com signing off