He's kind of new at this, so he didn't include a year, rating, or picture. Hyperlinks and photos were added by me.
Enjoy!
-- Mike
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In the tradi
tion of famous siblings throughout history-- Jamie Lynn Spears, Ashley Simpson, Jim Belushi, Bill Ripken, Jeb Bush—- I have agreed to grab on to my brother’s coat tails and make my first foray into this wine reviewing business. It’s not an easy undertaking for me, really, since I’ve really always been more of a beer man, and also because I honestly don’t have any sense of taste.
Still, writing snarky reviews sounds like fun, so I thought I
’d give it a shot, so I headed to bloom and bought a bottle of the Matthew Fox Shiraz, which seemed like a perfect choice on a number of levels. First of all, it was on sale for $4 and there was a huge and very appealing display right smack dab in the middle of the rear aisle next to the seafood counter – not only cheap, but convenient. Second of all, I have learned from Mike and Joy that the number 1 criteria for choosing cheap wines to review is the goofiness of the name, and what is goofier than a wine that apparently isn’t named for the B-list celebrity whose name is on the bottle. On top of that, I am married to a woman who is a huge Lost fan, as well as one of the four truly devoted followers of Party of Five, the Fox network’s rather feeble mid-90’s attempt to follow up on the success of 90210 and Melrose Place. So Matthew Fox, who plays Jack in Lost and played Charlie in Party of Five, has been a frequent guest in my home over these last ten years.
So
Matthew Fox it is. And being honest, this isn’t a bad cheap wine, much better than some of the others we’ve tried. It’s fruity and mild and sort of bland in a delightfully grape-juicy kind of way. Much like Matthew Fox himself, this wine does the job it was hired to do with a serious and sincere look on its face, but doesn’t really achieve or aspire to anything really impressive. It’s a perfectly serviceable beverage to have with dinner (of course, so is grape juice), and if you drink enough of it, you will get drunk.
But, hey, this wine wasn’t named for Robert DeNiro, or even Paul Newman, from whom anyone would expect a great deal more. It’s not even really named for Matthew Fox, even though his name is on the bottle.
The lesson to take from this, I guess? You get what you pay for.
Matthew Fox Wines - $4 at Bloom
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In the tradi
tion of famous siblings throughout history-- Jamie Lynn Spears, Ashley Simpson, Jim Belushi, Bill Ripken, Jeb Bush—- I have agreed to grab on to my brother’s coat tails and make my first foray into this wine reviewing business. It’s not an easy undertaking for me, really, since I’ve really always been more of a beer man, and also because I honestly don’t have any sense of taste.Still, writing snarky reviews sounds like fun, so I thought I
’d give it a shot, so I headed to bloom and bought a bottle of the Matthew Fox Shiraz, which seemed like a perfect choice on a number of levels. First of all, it was on sale for $4 and there was a huge and very appealing display right smack dab in the middle of the rear aisle next to the seafood counter – not only cheap, but convenient. Second of all, I have learned from Mike and Joy that the number 1 criteria for choosing cheap wines to review is the goofiness of the name, and what is goofier than a wine that apparently isn’t named for the B-list celebrity whose name is on the bottle. On top of that, I am married to a woman who is a huge Lost fan, as well as one of the four truly devoted followers of Party of Five, the Fox network’s rather feeble mid-90’s attempt to follow up on the success of 90210 and Melrose Place. So Matthew Fox, who plays Jack in Lost and played Charlie in Party of Five, has been a frequent guest in my home over these last ten years.So
Matthew Fox it is. And being honest, this isn’t a bad cheap wine, much better than some of the others we’ve tried. It’s fruity and mild and sort of bland in a delightfully grape-juicy kind of way. Much like Matthew Fox himself, this wine does the job it was hired to do with a serious and sincere look on its face, but doesn’t really achieve or aspire to anything really impressive. It’s a perfectly serviceable beverage to have with dinner (of course, so is grape juice), and if you drink enough of it, you will get drunk.But, hey, this wine wasn’t named for Robert DeNiro, or even Paul Newman, from whom anyone would expect a great deal more. It’s not even really named for Matthew Fox, even though his name is on the bottle.
The lesson to take from this, I guess? You get what you pay for.
Matthew Fox Wines - $4 at Bloom
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