Cul de Cuvée: Solar in the vineyards! Danger, danger!

The recently-random bits.

Hello and welcome to the beautiful fail season!

So, with the holidays coming, we all need to know if you like cheese? Like, really like cheese? Do you find it to be… an “addiction”? Well, we have bad news for you because if you’re addicted a) there is apparently a “cheese rehab” center out there but b) it costs $6,500 buckos a week to get that cheese monkey off your back. Cheese responsibly, people.

Now to the more important question of, do you find yourself addicted to wine? Well then, London has a solution to that which is to charge £100 corkage per bottle. If that doesn’t keep you off the grape sauce, nothing will. It does raise the question, if a restaurant fails to make enough money from food alone, is it a restaurant at all or simply an overpriced bar support system?

There’s always a lot of talk about the Unique Selling Point (USP) of various wines. Sessions and seminars. Consultants and conmen. Consumers and… more conmen. But apparently if one is in England, beyond the USP of being in England (they make wine, in England?!!), what’s unique is being “the only profitable English wine company” that’s ever existed. Somehow this is not the uniqueness we were probably looking for though.