 Okay, njroute22.com here in a new venue don't ask me why I just felt like doing something different and today it's been actually three weeks since I filmed a cheap wine reviews vlog today it's in a new environment here it's gonna be a little bit boomy I don't have my wireless mic because I don't have an adapter for my camera my 10 year old DLSR DSLR so it's gonna be boomy I'll try and fix it in post-production but today's wine is the Laia 2017 I'm gonna give you a little background on the Laia Laia was a wine I discovered five years ago made six years ago it's a Spanish wine it's like a Garnacha Monastrel that type of thing and I remember drinking it was a 2011 maybe a 2012 vintage 14 and change percent and it was a good wine man was like seven or eight seven bucks seven eight dollars a bottle and it was good and then all of a sudden the 2013 2014 2015 vintages left us with our two-bottle review feeling pretty pretty crappy something happened so I happened to stumble across this Laia 2017 vintage aged in stainless steel barrels and then finished off with four months in a French oak barrel whatever that means and I just want to let you know one thing tomorrow I think I had a little bit about a wine industry editorial coming out about about why we're a little bit cynical when it comes to the the verbiage that seems to be unique to the wine industry and as well as it's infected all the wannabe wine reviewers as well I read all these independent customer reviews on wine merchant websites and they all talk in the same like like model the same like like framework oh it was this it has a note of this it's strong on this God man it cannot be any more in your mind than anything else but anyway this wine here is is made by a winery called bodegas adhalaya and I think that's where they get the Laia name from and here's what they say about it it was it's the grapes are grown in a in the hot dry region of Spain in limestone soils which is great actually I'll explain in a minute and it's about two to three thousand feet above silo which is good because that helps with the insects and all sorts of other problems that you might have with wine and this is why I heard from some people I can't tell you if it's true or not but they don't need the same level of pesticides as they do in like low lower altitude regions in California for instance so even though it's not an organic wine it may actually be as good if not better from a pesticide standpoint then that a that a organic wine may or may not have the 2012 2011 we're good and then we we took a few years off from it and we're trying again I'm on my second bottle you're drinking it watered down today's coffee sponsored by Wawa not really but it's inadvertently freely sponsored by Wawa man it's refreshing this year I gotta say I'm gonna try some I'm gonna try some plain I never do this I hate doing it I'm not gonna pay attention to the finish or the lingering or any of that crap I'll tell you this much I don't think it's very good straight I prefer it watered down it has a little bit of a I don't know I don't want to say yeasty it's hard to explain exactly but a lot of people online on the interwebs say or said that it's it's underpriced this wine should be twice as much I don't know maybe it's the 15% that got them and they felt all jolly I don't know it's a decent one and seven I paid 749 Berkeley there's this liquor store there and I'm gonna go off on a side note here I'm a little bit perturbed at the larger wine retailer such as Bourbon Street up on the central to western section of central New Jersey central you know anywhere from like I guess Lebanon or Bridgewater that area all the way out to Phillipsburg incredible buying power now and ten or more stores and their price on these lower end bottle of wines bottles of wine that are normally you know seven eight bucks at an independent single liquor store they charge ten bucks for so not only do they get you know power of economy of scale by buying more cases they probably pay a dollar less a bottle than the independent guys and they charge two dollars more so they're making hand over fist when it comes to the lower end wines and that is starting to bother me a little bit and and I don't know what to do about I think they shouldn't they do price match if you bring a receipt in from another store so I highly recommend it if Bourbon Street or for a what's the other liquor store buy right buy right I have to say shop right liquors does does charge the low end price at the independent stores but there's a place in Union I think called shoppers wines then as these low-end bottles one for a buck less than in the lowest other places 699 a bottle so that really gets to me when it comes to these these these wine stores they these people were becoming filthy rich because they have convenient liquor store and someone's not going to be willing to drive you know an extra 10 minutes or 10 miles to save two dollars so it almost works out in their favor and that to me is taking advantage of people they they should they should just do like the other guys do even the I can go on all these people just think about think about think about all the reviews you read there they're like incredible verbal tapestries okay there's all sorts of flavor and analogies and really it is just grape juice it's grape juice with and you make it up in your head it's like maybe some childhood memory gets gets recollected and it's it's pretty much all red wine tastes same I never really say wow that tastes like rocks or that tastes like string cheese or it always tastes pretty much like wine I mean a lot of people like this lie wine and I guess I mean after getting my taste buds numbed after bottle number one I have to tell you that bottle number two tastes different it tastes different it's more pleasant and it's easier to drink the more you drink the first few steps after letting it breathe of course that's what they say and believe it you are yeah maybe letting it breathe equalizes some of the some of the molecules in there that point about the lie but the whole point is it's $7.49 cents and it's right in the middle of the five to ten dollar price range and 15% alcohol it packs a punch and it probably has more if there's one takeaway with this it's it's and pay attention to my wine ran tomorrow please it's try not to read too much into it the wine is going to be acceptable most of the time even the cheapest of the cheap wines you're going to be able to suck down a few glasses and not feel vomitously sick the wine industry is fascinating and I don't see too many people challenging you because the minute you challenge it they cut you off you won't get any advertising you won't give you free wine I don't get any of that crap anyway so why what do I have to lose I think I have more to gain by getting more people to wake up about the fact that I don't think there really is much difference between a six or seven dollar bottle of wine and a fifty or a hundred dollar bottle of wine the taste is momentary and fleeting I'm almost wanting to bet if someone wants to donate two hundred and fifty dollar bottles of red Spanish wine to the mjbru22.com and let me try them the same exact way I drink them you know water down I love this by the way double you have to double the cups to keep the ice from melting back to me to prove this point that that there really is no difference I would be happy to indulge I'll be back in a little while mjbru22.com back the next day after drinking a lyre 15% two bottles and I have to say I don't feel so swell today I'm not sure if it's because I didn't drink for six days in a row beforehand but I don't think the lyre passed the test I really don't but I think the two bottle test should work no matter whether I drink the night for or not for a week before so I'm not going to drink the lyre anymore unless I know I'm just going to have a glass or two I mean it's a it's a pretty okay wine but it doesn't pass the two bottle test and that's it it's a beautiful day and too bad my I don't feel the same way the day looks and that's it until the next two bottle test have a good week