Cul de Cuvée: NYE's Beer & that Shitty DJ

The recently-random bits.

For the fine makers of sparkling wines in Spain’s Catalunya region, the year started off on a ‘brown’ note as TV3, the main regional broadcaster, saw the New Year toasted in with… beer. (CAT) We at the CdC HQ are (very) alcohol agnostic and Estrella Damm is a fine lager, but, come on, the only thing less glamorous than watching NYE hosts chug a bottle of brewski like they’re pledging a frat is watching the current Transatlantic Shitshow about a “very big” island. The plus side is that the various sparkling wine bodies as well as ‘everyone’, all joined forces to declare in unison, “Ass, ass, ass.”

For those who might not be drinking and are (somehow) still doing Dry January™, you should know that it is in fact, a freakin’ conspiracy! “No way, CdC, conspiracies are fun and this is one DJ that ain’t fun.” Oh yeah, name one “fun” conspiracy, just one. Can’t do it, can you? That’s what we thought. Now go back to your regularly-scheduled not drinking.

Hot off the Oh Behave Desk comes Alfonso Cevola’s response to the responses that writes about, writing about wine: “...instead of simply writing better, they wrote thousands of words explaining why everyone else is writing worse...” This is one debate in the wine community that’s spreading faster than 2020 Covid. Why? Because it’s catty AF, meow!