 Hey there, njroute22.com here with another cheap wine reviews vlog Little technical note here the last Few cameras we've been using here The last camera I was using for the last five videos was a Sony a5100 you could see the link in my in the description below It was a nice compact point-and-shoot. It was modern 2017 2016 version It autofocus quick everything about it was great 100 megabit like video transmissions. This is all geek talk by the way I Had to return and I'm part of this beta program. This this there's a website out there called xp's expese Com and you pay like 30 bucks a month and you get to test one piece of technology for three weeks a month And you have this whole list you could get test drones You can test hairdryers and kids toys cameras computers laptops etc. Etc And you pay 30 bucks a month and they'll send you something for nothing well for 30 part of the $30 fee and You test it for three months inside if you want to buy if you don't like you send it back You get a new item the next month That's why I had the Sony a5100 so a good camera you get it for about 400 bucks Here's the thing though. Let's say you like the camera you could keep it and they they charge me if you wanted to keep it You could pay it off over time. It's like having a credit card, but not needing one 40 bucks a month for 12 months. I would keep the camera It's it's actually a pretty cool program you pay as you go if I can find an affiliate link there You could sign up for this expese. It's really kind of cool. It's in beta right now But they're accepting new customers and it I have a feeling this is gonna be the new trend Where you don't you could try stuff out without committing I mean I have to admit You know on go on Amazon buy it use it for 28 days and return it say it's broken and they'll give you your money back They don't care said there's a way to take advantage of Amazon by the way so what I'm when I'm using here is my old 10 year old digital SLR and It doesn't have I can't autofocus like for instance today I'm reviewing a dark horse double down red blend. It's a 15% 799 a bottle Wine this is in the pretty much the mid-range for our cheap wines $10 per 750 being the high $5 or less being a lot. Well, we're gonna talk about that at some point in the future I think there is a too cheap wine like I said before about the With a crane lake that is deadly and I talked to my buddies at one of the local liquor stores around here and We talked about some of the really really hobo low-end wine and they were like 12 and a half percent alcohol I'm really a little nervous about that I'm gonna do it once for the viewers the like a handful of viewers I have for this channel one time I'm gonna and I'm gonna make sure I don't drink like five days beforehand or me one Whatever. Anyway, let's see if this focuses. This is the dark horse double down. Does it focus a little bit I can't tell I'll off seeing post but this is This is a cheap wine and let me let me preface this real quick I've had bad experiences with dark horse in the past and I'm not saying that's going to affect this review at all This damn thing is crooked. I'm gonna straighten it out here. Let's straighten it out. Yeah, that's a little bit straighter now A little bit straighter a little bit straighter good. I'll move it back to so you can see a little bit more of the I'm just such a I'm not a professional a youtuber, but I'm an honest one. That's that's important So let's see how it focusing it doesn't focus too good We'll see if this is dark horse. I choose this one because you have the high alcohol percentage. I typically Have better experience With with the higher alcohol in terms of how I feel the next day. Remember this wine vlog is not About the taste the notes the blend the grapes did whatever that is BS And I'm not gonna curse on this on this channel just in case you're wondering Why should I mean like we all curse enough during the day? Like what what I mean, maybe perhaps if my curses have like comedic timing I might add a fruity little zinger here and there But anyway, did you see did I do my my signature drink? Man, it's so refreshing. That's I really enjoy a nice cold watered-down red wine Six ounces. This is a 30 ounce cup from Starbucks 30 ounces six ounces of wine maybe seven or eight depending sometimes I'm feeling a little saucy and I'll add a couple extra and you get a whoa It really does affect the buzz and then you know five to eight ice cubes, you know standard 1970s ice cube trade nothing from a bag and the rest water filtered filtered water no fluoride And that's how I drink the one. It's just it's the best way. It's not ghetto. It's not it's not White trash. It's none of that It's how I preserve my life. Anyway, the other day I did a video about the 19 crimes and I and The wine is good. It's nine bucks a bottle past the two bottle test But I went on their website and the marketing was in another league. It was it was all about Something that had nothing to do with the product or the wine. It was just some sort of sort of fruity just Like reality show fake kind of I don't It bothered me that I couldn't find out about the wine, but I realized and as I've told you guys That this little write-up on the back of the wine is to get you mentally tricked Into thinking something before you've been drinking I never read those fricking things never never read this never read this Never read this just buy it. Here's what you look at You know find the varietal that you like is a cab or a merlot or Pinot noir, whatever Pay attention to the alcohol percentage and they're different. Sometimes they put them in these weird spots like over here That's 15% and dark horse makes a 13 and a half and all I Bought this for some friends of mine and it always turned out kind of bad like everybody got angry It was like an angry wine This was a few years ago, and I've kind of stayed away from it But I picked some up for the for the local Local nut nut house here, and I think it still has an angry feeling so if anybody's a little bit Don't don't buy this one. I'm okay. I'm stable almost always unless I drink like hard alcohol like vodka or whiskey. I Don't trust myself drinking. That's why I don't drink it anymore. Anyway This for me I'm on bottle number one I finished one whole bottle and there's an unopened bottle here proof evidence never hasn't been tapped There's no trickery going on here I'm gonna crack that open, but I I don't know if this is gonna pass the two-bottle test I mean I had a weird night last night. I'll explain it some other day But I looked on the dark horse wine Dot-com dark horse wine dot-com and I looked up their wine and all they talk about is is the emotional triggers Okay, bold luxurious dark food hints of caramel and everybody likes to hear like that the sugar sugar sweets And there's a harvest grapes. We're gonna harvest them at the optimum ripeness. Isn't that the objective always me? Would you ever want a frickin sour grape? There's a reason there's a that's a phrase. Hey, you got sour grapes when you or how about Harvesting when they're past their optimum ripeness. Well, these are rotten crud. I mean like it's so stupid This is Beth Smith method of getting the best grapes picking them them when they're ripe. I mean, I'm sorry I'm a loss of words for the lack of creativity. I mean if that Like thrills anybody. Hey, man They this one is good because they pick them when they're at their Optimum ripeness. I'm like you dumb bonehead. That's when you're supposed to pick all grapes always. Ah Anyway, and then they use Most sorts of other trigger words. What you'll taste luxurious tannins with rich color I know how can you taste rich color? It says luxurious tannins with rich color. I can't taste color I can only taste taste. Anyway, I'm really just a little bit irritated with the how how Marketing has has completely circumvented just common sense quality price. How do I feel? Etc. So That's basically it. So I'm on bottle number one I'm gonna take a break here and and I'm gonna tell you that their marketing and and and website is is Lacking of any real honest information. It's just BS marketing By the way, they this they say for this particular grape this Bob double down Red blend on their website says 14 and a half percent, but when you look on our bottle It's actually 15% so maybe this is either an old here and again This is another one of those wines without a vintage. There's no year. So you can't really figure it out So just like the Rex Goliath I mentioned again that I talked about a few videos ago I said, don't worry about the packaging or any of the marketing. Look at the percentage Like if this this went up to 15% if I feel good tomorrow I'm gonna give it a thumbs up regardless of how much I dislike their marketing and it doesn't do anything to me If I does something for 99% of everybody else, but I'm not I'm the 1% Out of don't take that out of context Um If this works, I'll I'll keep it on the list 799 a bottle is is a good Middle ground. I mean it's $16 plus tax for for a 1500 milliliter and it makes me cringe when I used to get Uh the Rex Goliath for 1009 at 13 and a half percent and it was a perfect wine I mean $5 a day or it's eight seven seven bucks a day Times, you know, 365 is over $2,000 close to $3,000 a year. Wait a minute Yeah, seven times 400s 20 hundreds between two and $3,000 a year I would say if I drank two bottles a day every day of the year, but I don't drink every day of the year just most of them um Anyway, so so their websites useless like like nobody's I mean, it's just all about marketing as wine Wine will always be all about marketing and tricking your brain into into liking something and every there's all this Fancy crap going on. I mean if I could find a $3 bottle of wine that makes me feel fine every night and it has So so taste I will buy because I'd rather use the money for something else I will not invest my even if I had A million dollars a month salary or 10 million dollars a month. So I still wouldn't buy a $500 bottle of wine I don't why I mean like common sense should be Just because you have more money doesn't mean you should spend everything you got right? I mean, I like to win. I mean, sure. Maybe maybe if I had a million dollars a month I might go up into the $20 category. Perhaps the the two bottle rule is more adequately passed in that and It's struggle to find a cheap wine that doesn't make me feel like I need to call the garbage dump and take myself to the trash and I don't know. Um But anyway, I'll come back in a little bit To talk about maybe how I feel halfway through and I'll try again to do My morning after how do I feel? But again, I've been really bad and a little bit like I haven't followed my own rules where I if I ever review a wine I should probably do it When I'm I have a clear day at least before me so I can reset and then truly like level the playing field But I think I'm old enough and experience enough to be able to figure it out Even with an unlevel playing field. I I think I know So we'll come back in a little bit and see how we're doing with this. This is one bottle in and one Okay We're back with uh, this is the last glass Of the whatever that was. I don't remember the name of it anymore. Uh, some sort of a double double Double blend That's just the most satisfying feeling to to take a after a nice cold slug Of uh, cold wine. That's refreshing anyway, I'm not like Slothing or s slobbering Hey, my uh My mindset is going off. I'm maybe I'm getting tired. I don't know what time it is here. I can't even see One or two This uh, this this wine we're drinking right now is is perfectly fine On the expense event 17 bucks or higher for two two bottles Again, I'm gonna say it again Your best bet is to find something that's around five dollars a bottle and that's why box wine such as Shania Is is the best because you save a man of money Save a lot of money to save a man. Holy crap Um, you know, I'm getting tired and I'm at the end of my night But I don't get angry. I don't get mad. I get silly more silly than than anything else but I hope uh I hope my my wine reviews here are helping somebody because If I could help one person Not get worried about the the marketing behind a wine and just figure out what the the money The the experience and the after fact the after effects Like how you feel the next day is a big deal. It really is a big deal. That's why I think those 3.99 I'm tempted so tempted to buy a three dollar 99 cent bottle of wine At one of the liquor stores here and do two bottles of that and I looked at the label There's no I mean the fact that there's no right up about it. I mean As much as I bash the write ups. Oh, it's a it's a ripe plum blah blah blah blah The fact that there's no write up Almost makes me also nervous about it. Um I think it's kind of funny. It's like we have nothing to say about this piece of shit All right. I have nothing to say about it. It's just it's just toxic juice that you're gonna drink and it's gonna make you You know what I mean But I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it I'm gonna buy two bottles the cheapest f and y not crane lake. I hate crane lake But this other one I might have been hated even more maybe crane lake since I've had it It's it's it's like like 12 steps ahead of this other cheap ass wine I don't know I'm I'm a bit nervous, but I'm gonna do it. It's either Um Because the 599 wine that I like per bottle 750 bottle that I like the best is explore door available at bourbon street It's good. I've drank two bottles and I'm fine. In fact, I had two bottles last night I didn't do a review about this, but I had two bottles last night And I was doing something I was playing a fucking video game. Okay I haven't played a video game in like four years and I just got hooked on it And that's what they do. That's how they do it I drank four cans of spiked seltzer afterward and I was I'm pretty much okay today. I slept a few hours extra But the three that was a 599 wine on sale from 899 or whatever it was whatever they the perceived prices are God knows you don't know what they they really sold for what the wholesale cost was um But a 399 wine I'm like I'm very curious. That's eight dollars for for 1.5 Do I want to put myself through The like almost almost guaranteed pain the next day and maybe two days afterward I don't know so so the cheap wines has like Like like a limit a high limit of 10 for me in terms of financial reasons and a low limit of five or six for physical reasons if I go below that to like three Like I may just be like volunteering for for pain and I don't want to volunteer for pain ever so Hey, I'm back. Uh, this is the next day after drinking two bottles of the dark horse Double down whatever the wine I drank in the video Proceeding this it passed the two bottle test because I drank even a little bit more of something else And I feel fine today. So I think we're all in the clear with this So I pat I don't know what bottle doesn't pass the two bottle test. We have to maybe find out. So that's it