 Today we're going to talk about cheap wine. In particular today's wine is the Explorador. This is $5.99 at, let me see how I, this is how I drink it. This is glass number two by the way. I normally drink two bottles to rate our wine. This is glass number two, watered down. Take a look at in the photos that I put up just now and this is how I water it down. It's how I stay hydrated. It's important just to make things official here. I'm going to taste it and I mentioned in my cheap wine reviews introduction video a couple days ago that I think expensive wine is for suckers or people that want to feel important. I'm not saying that there aren't subtleties between the wines, but it's like like minutiae. It's a minor difference and you make it all up in your head, you know, you make it all up. So I'm going to taste the, I'm not going to do the swirling and I'm going to do the swirling just for effect. What does that mean? It lingers. I mean, if you can invent more stupid crap to rip people off with wine and to make it seem like they know more than anybody else, it gives you a buzz. So anyway, I'm going to taste this. I don't know. I'm not going to try and pretend that there's something going on here. This is a $5.99 at what? I don't know. It tastes like a $100 bottle of wine to me. It's all in your mind, you know. If you gave this to someone like new and say, hey, I got this, it was on sale for $99. It was normally $150. They'd be like, whoa, this is the best wine I ever had. People are so stupid. You know, I'll be honest. I mean, I guess it doesn't have a sophisticated taste. And yes, I've had more expensive wines that are all velvety and so on. I mean, it tastes a little bit like the hobo wine, but a little bit, but it's not too bad. See, when you water it down, you stay hydrated. You can enjoy the imbibing factor a lot more and you get buzz slower. It's a good way to drink wine. Anyway, the story behind this is also, here's another thing, it's a screw top. You know, when these things first came out, like all the wine snobs, it took them a long time to be opened. Oh, that's a cheap wine. We can't have a wine without a cork. But then when you realize that one out of every four bottles of expensive wine you get is tainted because this corks go bad, then you start waking up to the fact that this is a this is a smart move. And also, most corks nowadays aren't even real cork. They're artificial. So like, people don't know what they're talking about. Every wine is going to be screw top in 10 years. You watch. It's less waste and it keeps the wine better. Anyway, so that's it. Well, I'm on glass number two here and I'm going to come back maybe when I finish this bottle and we'll talk about, you know, I normally drink two. I might be a little tired tonight. So I may not even get to finishing two. But what I wanted to do with this video series, the cheap wine reviews for njroute22.com, when I'm on the glass number three or four, I'll bring my little flyer so I can I can put that up. That's my big thing, you know. Anyway, I totally forgot. Yeah, I'm going to hopefully remember to bring my camera. So when I wake up in the morning, I can describe exactly how I feel in the morning. And that's that's how I rate a wine is how crappy do I feel in the morning or do I feel bad at all? I don't want to feel bad. I mean, I want to recap one thing from my cheap wine introduction was that you can drink a bottle or me like everybody has a limit. They can drink, you know, two or three glasses, four glasses of any wine out no matter how cheap it is or how expensive it is and feel fine the next day. Contrarily or on the contrary, as they say, like for me, three bottles of anyone, I don't care how good or how pure it is. I pretty much in general, it's guaranteed that I'll feel really crappy the next day. So two bottles is my gauge. Find your gauge to, you know, find out what what the what the limit is for you that no matter what you drink, you feel like crap and work backwards from there and then figure out how many glasses of crap you can have and guaranteed to feel good. And this is this. This is my my barometer because I've had two bottles of I can feel good with two bottles. Let's just put it that way. And there's times I felt like crap with two bottles and that to me is a bad wine when you feel crap with feel like crap with two bottles. So we'll be back. We'll talk more about this. But if this isn't about finisher notes or winery or how the age of the grape or what kind of like horses walked on the soil in the 1800s, this is none of that crap because none of that matters. It's affordable, good time, reliable, you know, like can you get it? Although the story with this is that Bourbon Street, which has, you know, I don't know, 10 or 12 stores, I forget how many they bought out the entire inventory. You can't find this wine anywhere else. And I heard they paid $2 a bottle. And then God knows they bought a couple thousand bottles of it. And they jacked it up to 599. They should that's a 300% wait, two, four, six, 200% markup. And that's unheard of for even cheap wine, like they sell a $20 bottle of wine, they're probably, they probably paid 18 bucks for it. So this is a huge profit margin for Bourbon Street. You can't get anywhere else. And not too many five, nine. I like this one. I've had it in the past. It's not my first time. This isn't like a first time review. It doesn't, it's, it's, it's an okay wine. And I'll be kind of sad when it's gone. I mean, $12 for a 1.5, you know, plus tax, almost $13. It's, it's not the lowest price one. Let's just put it that way. There are cheaper ones. Crane Lake is one of them. That is garbage. I think Crane Lake is like the only bottle of wine I can drink one of and feel like crap the next day. I thought it was a big deal when I found it at Buy Right Lickers a long time ago. And I thought it was like I stumbled across this kind of bargain. No, it's not a bargain when you have to pay like top dollar in pain. No way. So I'm going to come back and do a couple more edits here. I'm going to go do some other work and we'll see if I get, I don't really slur my words too bad when I'm, when I'm drinking. Only when I'm really, uh, lit, like in hard liquor does that to me. So I'll be back and we'll talk more about this wine in a no nonsense way. Okay, I'm back. Here we have, this is the last, I divide my wine glass up to six ounce servings with the rest of water. And I just kick this bottle here, explore a door. Now the purpose of my reviews here is to drink two bottles and report on how I feel the next day. Well, the problem is I'm a little bit tired today. I did some hardcore, what do you call it, landscaping today and I'm using heavy equipment and I'm holding it up. Like God man, that's sore. I'm a little bit tired. I don't even know what time it is like one, I think. I think it's one, one a.m. So I don't know if I'm going to be able to drink to, but I'll tell you this this much. I've had two bottles of this many times in the last few, you know, months since they added, uh, it's focused even, yeah, since they've had it on special at, at Bourbon Street. And it's, I feel fine the next day. It's, uh, and here's a little interesting tidbit about, um, about hangovers. Like, like, some people just like, they drink themselves into a stupor. They do hard liquor and they don't hydrate themselves. And those bad hangovers where you have a pounding headache and every time you move your head, it feels like, like somebody's like smashing a brick on your head. There's something that's, that's that the worst kind of thing. That's like for like the newbie that gets drunk for the first time in their 21 and they, they're not sensible. When you drink and hydrate, and I drink additional water on top of this, I mean, let me have a sip now. For me, my hangover is like, sometimes it's like partially like digestive. Sometimes I never really get a headache. I'm never really nauseous. I just feel like this general queeze, um, general like uneasiness, you know, it's like, it's weird. I know like as time goes by that, uh, there's a certain time where you just know you're okay. You're like, okay, sometimes it's like two o'clock or five o'clock p.m. I mean, it depends on when you wake up. And the worst is the worst hangovers for me, at least, or when it's like 11 o'clock at night, I feel better. And then it's like, God, man, am I going to have another glass of wine? A lot of times I don't. Most of the times I don't. But there's usually like this clearing in the sky. It's like when the storm goes by and then all of a sudden the clouds, uh, they clear in this blue sky comes out. That's, that's basically like, uh, how I feel. So I don't know if I'm going to crack into bottle number two. So this review and my first review here may be a bust other than the fact that I've had this and I can tell you that two bottles for me is, is fine. Um, one little anecdote here, a little tidbit about this kind of review I'm doing. I should probably have some baseline settings, um, like no drinking the night before or two or three nights before, just to have a control because I may unfairly give a ordinarily good wine a bad review if it's like, you know, latching onto the previous hangover from the night before. So that, I don't know what the exact science is there. I'm sure it's all individual but I should probably have like an established, uh, constant where I never talk about my two bottle review unless I have not at least drank the night before, preferably two or three more days before that. But having a, having a drink after a long day is always a helpful thing to go to sleep and stuff. So that's it. I will put another scene in here if I crack this little bottle open. Um, I have this weird tendency to have staying power. I make it tired, you know, like one o'clock, two o'clock, and then something interests me and I just, I stay up three o'clock, four o'clock, and then this, this, this may, uh, may come into play. So that's it. This is, I'm going to figure out a way to make these reviews maybe two minutes long. Not, I have a lot to talk about here. So if, if you follow this channel or you're interested in cheap wine reviews, I think these first stay with me while I stumble through these first few videos, I'll figure out how to make it, uh, better. I mean, I'm not going to try and copy anybody else. That's not really my style. I'm just trying to do something fun here and, and I have a lot to talk about this. So that's it. I might be back. I might not. Just wanted to say, uh, after it was a, the final tally last night was, uh, one bottle and one glass. And I'm going to perfect the happy day today. Um, no, uh, feeling crappy at all. So, uh, we'll have to do a two bottle next time.