 Hey there, njroute22.com here with another cheap wine reviews vlog Zero script zero thinking actually tonight was just a kind of like a last-minute thing here I just kicked a bottle of this Apothic inferno. Let's see if it focuses. I hate this shit. I'm using a ten-year-old digital camera Which is I considered like what do you call it? I got antique almost in in today's day and age, but this is a Apothic small batch. Okay, here we go buzzwords from the get-go small batch limited release Marketing I see small batch limited release first thing I think of marketing because they charge 15 bucks a bottle at Bourbon Street $10 a bottle It's 1499 16 and I rounded up one penny for those people that are bean counters And this is a 15 point nine percent red blend and their big claim the fame here is This is a trend I've noticed throughout the wine industry It's aged in blank blank barrels for blank blank dates This this was aged in whiskey whiskey barrels, okay And this is all marketing and I didn't read it before I mean other than seeing the percentage of Alcohol, I didn't think about what whiskey barrels really meant when I cracked it open I tasted it and it hit me like a like a Like a like like a wall of bricks, okay If you're not used to drinking wine that was aged in whiskey barrels for X number of days then you're going to Find this to be slightly Off-putting or odd or maybe you might like it My significant other said it tasted like a port whatever that means. I've never had a port I somehow equate port with the old people and whatever It has a unique taste. Let's just just be fair and let's just say it has a unique taste number two After you've acclimated yourself by the way Little tip here. They have they sell this angular microfiber brush best for cleaning the inside of your windshield If you ever have to but you got to use spray doesn't it works. Okay, dry you spray Get two of these things and then use one one for the spray and the second to dry it off. But anyway That's why it's here in the field of view. I Wasn't too thrilled with it. I mean, you know, there's a little bit left and I forgot a wine glass I'm just gonna drink it straight out of the bottle You feel like you're drinking booze a little bit. I mean, I Don't know what this apothec company is and apothec wines and it's 15.9 percent alcohol I've heard in the grapevine whatever that that this wine company is just sort of like a sort of like a Chain and when you think about chain stores, there's nothing really special They're like a business and they there they get all their kind of Mantra or juice from from marketing and stuff. It's not really a truly like a wine company would be like a wine family I don't know anything about this other than what I've heard. They're from California and God knows what happens to people when you live in California long enough And they just have words on here, I'm not even gonna read it. I mean, I'll Blast off a couple words here. Oh, it's a masterful encounter a long clean finish layers of maple layers of maple To me if I didn't read any of that crap or I didn't think about this too much I would say to myself that this is a chemical drink that has another layer of chemical flavor to it to me It does not taste Authentic it tastes like they they they Like created like Frankenstein in a lab honestly, I mean like it's quite possible And I'd be unfair if I didn't at least give them the chance that they might Have done this the right way, but to me They had their goal before they figured out what to do and they said let's make this happen I don't know. I to me. It doesn't sound right It's six almost sixteen percent alcohol, which is way high and also fifteen dollars a bottle plus tax is Fifty percent above our max for the cheap wine reviews. So I guess I can say a couple things It's different It's definitely I guess welcome to have a different flavor and taste When you're used to the same old thing and and so on and so forth. So I'm not going to bash it for being different I'm not sure whether I like it yet or not. I'm not not enjoying it It's just a very unique taste and it's not one that I'm a hundred percent sure I like Want to go back to Unless they put something addictive in it, which will make me want it every time I go to the liquor store or wine store a spirit store or whatever you want to call it And I'm definitely not doing two bottles. I may crack open. I did buy two bottles I may crack open bottle number two just to get me know whatever the last one for the nightcap, you know a quarter of it Consumed but I I just it makes me Think about when I when I drink things outside of my comfort zone or the price zone it gives me an opportunity to You know think a little bit harder about About you know the garage door light went off. I'm gonna activate. There we go It gives me an opportunity to think about like the the the different variations of taste and everybody has a preference I'm sad to to presume that that most people you know form their tastes based on external influences and not their own Whether it's believing a wine Theory or having friends that that tap wines and they believe it You know, I do everything on my own. I don't give a crap if someone says it's good I'm not gonna automatically like like it because They say it's good I drink everything with my own opinion always I will never like something just because someone else I know or someone I Respect or someone I've read about and don't know or respect Has written about something and they say, oh, it's this that and the other thing. I Cannot allow myself to be influenced at all. It's my tongue and my body influences me and my brain So keep that in mind when you form your own Conclusions about anything and ask yourself. How did you get those conclusions or opinions? No, I love rambling on my wine my wine cheap wine reviews Vlogs because I think it all kind of interrelates each other. You can't just say That you know, obviously, I haven't built up a reputation yet And I don't have eight million followers or 20 million subscribers but I I think it's important for people that have the patience to listen and to two sentences and I ideals and Logic form over time and you can see probably if you've watched this is I think the 12th to 13th or 15th Video I can't even keep track anymore because I film everything way in advance and I edited later Comes out once a week. So this could be coming out. This it's like 35 degrees and it's no October It's probably coming out in November this this review It might be cold it might be warmer. Who knows I just think it's very important for people to to think through things in this have conversations with people and and And not jump to conclusions like like I said, like this is my first time trying this maybe my second I don't know. I might have had it before But I remember that distinct flavor and They put in clear writing and it's aged in whiskey barrels for 60 days That's the big thing if they put something in some other container for a certain amount of time And I guess it gives it a different flavor or taste or in whatever is in in there I Just don't know how I feel about this a hundred percent yet because you know, I immediately thought that it might have been some sort of nefarious false taste Creation but I could be wrong as well, and I don't want to be unfair a hundred percent to apophic Regarding that but I have my doubts when it comes to the industry any industry food or any kind of product that they say is one thing is usually another thing and Marketing is has a very unique way of achieving that because People believe it and and I'm a little bit of a cynic when it comes to All this official looking at me Look at it. It's like all in like tight bright or print like somebody typed it out like it was some sort of Birth certificate, you know, those things can be fraudulently modified as well I Just don't buy marketing at all from anyone anymore At all, I don't care if it's the small farmer or like it because marketing it's become about image And how things look and the packaging and you look at a lot of these products out there and they the especially If you look at it some of the mainstream products Let's just talk about food for a minute if you look at the mainstream products in like a supermarket Like shop right or Wegmans and you see these they look like it's like some guy in his garage making beef jerky But it's not it's it's like this trillion dollar company making it and they have this they have this small batch Kind of packaging and it makes it look like it's from some guy that's making it But it's not it's it's made in a massive factory somewhere And that's what bugs me the most is because packaging and presentation Absolutely Can influence a person and and their decision in what to buy Because they don't really have a connection with who made and this is why I like going to like these local farmers and Buffalo farms where they actually make the meat and it becomes very tough for me because or us because I Want to support the local guy, but nice three or four times more expensive and You run into your own problems like I can't this is not sustainable for me to buy $20 a pound Hamburg when I can get it for $2 For 73% in a place like Aldi Aldi I've been saying Aldi for the longest time But Aldi and I guess is the right way to say it if you're if you're from Germany Oh, I say Aldi. Yeah, anyway, whatever I'm rambling here. I'm totally rambling. I'll probably cut most of it out, but I'm not a big fan of fancy marketing and it's like it's the presentation Isn't isn't everything it's it's the it's the end product and I don't have a chemical testing lab here I can't figure out exactly what's in here But they say it's 15.9% and I want to add a little footnote here real quick the 12% saddle bread Sellers Pinot noir, which I really enjoyed the taste of tremendously I don't know if I put this in into the blog posts or not or in the video But it's sort of didn't pass the two bottle test For one reason I presume because I've only done the two bottle test once or maybe twice with that but It's because the flavor was so like light that for me to enjoy it in my little watered-down You know Starbucks model here. I I Couldn't what I think I watered it down like One to two so it was a one-part watered two parts wine and That to me like normally at the very least I normally water it then is one to one where it's half water half wine And if it's a very bold and flavorful wine, I do Minimum two parts water one part wine Like like a five ounce glass normally would fit into this 32 ounce thing you minus the ice and two to one like 15 ounces of water to two or three to one 15 ounces of water to five ounce wine the rest ice is usually a really Good way to drink my wine because like it very hydrated. I don't feel crappy but because Of the 12 percent saddle bread It was like two parts wine one part water And I think I felt really crappy To enjoy it this way. Otherwise. It was so watered down. It was so ridiculously watered down Now this stuff is strong. I could probably drink this four to one Like one part wine four parts water But I think I did this I think two parts water to one part wine And it's it's a really strong. I think the last one might have been one to one I don't know different taste and any of the other wines you've seen me review It definitely has that whiskey whiskey flavor So that's it I I'm probably gonna crack another bottle I mean another glass or two from the next bottle But uh, so I can't give you the official two bottle I mean like six almost 16 at two bottles Again, like I said, if I drink two bottles straight up of any wine I think I might feel pretty crappy tomorrow or the next day if I didn't Hydrate properly and that's why I'll remind you then that's why I Watered down my wine not just for the sake of the pleasure of cold imbibing through a straw But for hydration purposes as well because if you forget to hydrate while drinking it's Almost guaranteed that you're gonna have the worst hangar if you're doing shots all night Okay, and not hydrating at all That is the absolute worst way to feel the next day because at least with beer You get water. There's water in it. I mean, you know, they you know, whatever they some people say that the water doesn't matter And then like wine or beer, but it does I think it does I just drank shots of vodka or whiskey or bourbon or whatever And no water You're guaranteed to walk around like like like a piano on your head It just just it's not not a good way to do it. So hydration hydration hydration hydration is the key And that may very well be Why I rate these wines differently because it's my own fault that I'm not, you know, hydrating properly Between it if I was a real scientist, I would I would always always always have the exact same amount of water and and you know ratio of drinking and and water Like maybe I would pick a gallon jug of water and just make sure I finish that every time. No This isn't a science project. This is just a a vlog That's trying to entertain and inform people about the different wines out there because I don't think everybody's doing it the way I'm doing Um, that's it. 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