{"id":27,"date":"2011-02-26T10:30:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T15:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohiowines.net\/?p=27"},"modified":"2017-05-21T12:03:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T16:03:17","slug":"and-you-laugh-at-that-kool-aid-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ohiowines.net\/wineblog\/and-you-laugh-at-that-kool-aid-now\/","title":{"rendered":"And you laugh at &#8220;That Kool-Aid&#8221; now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure most of us today, even though we&#8217;re no wine experts, turn up our noses at Boone&#8217;s Farm wine. But that is probably where many of us, including me, had our first experience with wine. I remember back, with fond memories, those high school days &#8211; me and my buddies and a few bottles of Strawberry Hill. If we were feeling eventful, we&#8217;d also grab some Tickle Pink. It was cheap, went down like Kool-Aid, and made you happy. What more could a group of high school boys want?<\/p>\n<p>So maybe Boone&#8217;s Farm is the bottom shelf wine, but maybe it&#8217;s also serving an important purpose. If I had not had those experiences with wine from my younger days, maybe I would not bother trying wine today.<\/p>\n<p>Although, not an expert by any means, Grace and I have tried many different wines and found Reislings, ice wine (wine you can chew!), and our latest favorite &#8211; Moscato D&#8217;Asti.\u00a0 This wine is a sparkling white produced mainly in the province of Asti, north-west Italy. Since it is sweet, it&#8217;s considered a dessert wine.\u00a0 Best dessert you&#8217;ll ever have!!\u00a0 It is made from the Moscato Bianco grape.\u00a0 And at $11-16 a bottle, you won&#8217;t break the bank trying it.\u00a0 Next time you have a special occasion that calls for Champagne,\u00a0 slip in a bottle of Moscato D&#8217;Asti instead and watch the wonderful surprise on everyone&#8217;s face when they taste it.<\/p>\n<p>Am I buying bottom shelf wine today?\u00a0 Probably not.\u00a0 Am I still drinking wine?\u00a0 Absolutely!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/100893309334599986201? rel=author\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ohiowines.net\/images\/GoogleAuthor75.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Lucas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>I&#8217;m sure most of us today, even though we&#8217;re no wine experts, turn up our noses at Boone&#8217;s Farm wine. But that is probably where <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ohiowines.net\/wineblog\/and-you-laugh-at-that-kool-aid-now\/\" title=\"And you laugh at &#8220;That Kool-Aid&#8221; now\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[27,28],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-stories","tag-moscato-dasti","tag-sparkling-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiowines.net\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiowines.net\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiowines.net\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiowines.net\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiowines.net\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ohiowines.net\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/ohiowines.net\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiowines.net\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiowines.net\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiowines.net\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiowines.net\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}