I am inured to the heartbreak that sets in upon seeing the racks of Night Train, Thunderbird, and Cisco at my local bodega. This recently-discovered product set off a whole different sort of tracheal sympathy-spasm, though:
- No Credit Wanted
- ChocoVine, “For the Purist.”
ChocoVine. A great alternative to having nine dollars, this beverage—which is billed as a competitor to Bailey’s—is an exciting new blend of cabernet…and chocolate. “Perfect for the purist,” says their website. Remember that epicurean archetype of the sophisticate who dumps candy into their wine? Me either. Anyhow, if anyone sends us a bottle (we’re over budget for the month after discovering Tillamook’s new Double-Chunk Cheddarlager), we promise to do something really weird with it and post a photo.
New…?
Late pass
I bought this for my mom for Christmas and we both kind of liked it. It tastes like chocolatey cough syrup by itself, but mixed with milk it’s the only thing that can really cure the anxiety of the holidays.
Back in college, girls would put Jolly Ranchers in their Zima.
I guess this really isn’t like that.
I bet that makes an AWESOME hangover.
This pops up occasionally on another forum I frequent. I can’t imagine a reason for drinking this other than a dare.
I don’t know- Xocolatl de David, a local choco-dude, makes bars with stuff like olive oil and pigskin in them. They tend to be tasty. Chocolate and wine could, maybe, kind of work. Possibly.
Or, it could taste like liquid desperation, which is my gut reaction.
They handed out samples a few years ago at Cost Plus World Market, and it was not nearly as bad as it might seem. Kinda good, even. For chocolate wine.
The name seems like it’s a play on coq au vin, so…. there may be some cock in there.
@Colin – Finish the bottle, and then we’ll talk.
Looks and sounds disgusting………but everyone has different tastes so who knows?
I’ve had the pleasure of tasting two different kinds of chocolate-flavored wine. One was spit-out terrible, and the other was completely tolerable. (In a guilty, low-rent way, it tasted like Kahlua, which is also guilty and low-rent, as alcohol goes.) But for the life of me, I can’t remember which one of them was ChocoVine.
How could anything with that many tulips on the label be bad? @Denis, are you thinking of Chocolate Shop wine? Because I cried in pain when I drank that.