# Boonesfarm "Wine" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 14, 2004, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boonesfarm-wine/259785 "2004-08-14T02:04:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boonesfarm-wine/259785/41 "2004-08-17T16:38:14Z")
A few years back, the San Francisco city council, wanted liquor stores to stop selling fortified wines in areas of the city inhabited by alcoholics. The reasoning was, these “wines” were not intended to accompany a lunch of spaghetti, or a dinner of cioppino-they are manufactured for the express purposs of getting someone drunk, as quickly and as cheakply as possible! Should alcoholic street people be prohibited from purchasing “Mad Dog” or Boonesfarm? A lot of street people are struggling with addictions…why add to the problem by selling them cheap wine? ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2004, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boonesfarm-wine/259785/42 "2004-08-17T16:57:13Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > A few years back, the San Francisco city council, wanted liquor stores to stop selling fortified wines in areas of the city inhabited by alcoholics. The reasoning was, these “wines” were not intended to accompany a lunch of spaghetti, or a dinner of cioppino-they are manufactured for the express purposs of getting someone drunk, as quickly and as cheakply as possible! > Should alcoholic street people be prohibited from purchasing “Mad Dog” or Boonesfarm? > A lot of street people are struggling with addictions…why add to the problem by selling them cheap wine? They’d just buy cheap vodka or whiskey if you banned fortified wines. Besides this is based on the assumption that all people who buy fortified wines are either alcoholics who want to quit or a nuisance. Not all are. ---
**Author:** ![little\_bit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@little\_bit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/little_bit)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2004, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boonesfarm-wine/259785/43 "2004-08-17T17:27:16Z")
Does anyone else remember the days of the two-liter wine cooler? I swear Everclear made a cooler-type product. I know it came in purple & I think it came in red. If the Boone’s ran out there was always the Purple Everclear two-liter to fry your braincells. (Too bad it looks like blood coming up. :eek: ) ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boonesfarm-wine/259785/44 "2004-08-18T03:42:56Z")
I just love how you can describe these wines by color. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boonesfarm-wine/259785/45 "2004-08-18T19:08:52Z")
Ahhh, Boone’s. Sweet ambrosia. A college friend got married recently - instead of toasting with champagne, they toasted with Boone’s. Snow Creek Berry, the _only_ flavor to buy. Good stuff. One time, we went to a store and bought their entire stock of Boone’s. “Looking for a cheap drunk?” said the cashier. Priceless. Boone’s. Accept no substitutes. And what is this jungle juice of which you speak? Ahhh, you mean **wop**. It’s all so clear now. Doesn’t matter really what you put into it - after a while it all tastes like Hawaiian Punch. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boonesfarm-wine/259785/46 "2004-08-18T20:19:11Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > I wonder how much different, if at all, the Arbor Mist will be? So? (And “breakfast cereal aftertaste” is a hilarious description. Take that, Robert Parker!) ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boonesfarm-wine/259785/47 "2004-08-18T20:21:18Z")
“But I don’t _wanna_ drink cheap wine!” Jeez, people, it’s like you’ve never seen a straight line before. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2004, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boonesfarm-wine/259785/48 "2004-08-18T21:50:58Z")
When I spent my teenage summers in rural North Carolina, I’d work in the tobacco fields for pocket cash. It was hard, back-breaking work, but there was literally _nothing else to do_. And a week of work in the fields could net you a hundred bucks or so… so WTH. The farmers would supply water and “lunch” which was seldom more than a couple packages of Nabs and a soda. But at the end of the day, the foreman would break out a quart or two of **Mad Dog** … And an envelope of _unsweetened Grape Kool-Aid mix_. You see, the high school labor force of North Carolina in the 80’s wasn’t a bunch of winos. We had more refined tastes, and the sweetness of fortified wines were offensive to our palates. So they took the edge off of the Mad Dog and **Thunderbird** by adding extra flavor. I tell ya, it was just like Welch’s Grape Juice… **NOT!!** ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boonesfarm-wine/259785/49 "2004-08-19T01:14:52Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > So? > > (And “breakfast cereal aftertaste” is a hilarious description. Take that, Robert Parker!) I forgot I had it, honestly. Being the young single male type, I tend to live off the carby goodness of my cabinets and only open the fridge to blindly grope for a soda but at your reminder, I just poured myself a small glass. Whereas Boone’s Farm tastes like a General Mill’s product, Arbor Mist is more like something you’d expect from Welch’s. I have about the same taste for ethanol as **Wesley Clark** so when an alcoholic beverage tastes like juice to me, it’s pretty damning. At least the aftertaste approximates something vaguely strawberry though. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boonesfarm-wine/259785/50 "2004-08-19T04:28:14Z")
Boone’s is the best. For the ultimate, try Melon Ball. I just love that neon green color! And at 3 dollars a bottle how can you go wrong? > [@](#): > > _Harimad-sol said_ > I also peel the labels off if possible. Yum, mystery wine beverage! No, you got it all wrong. What you really need to do is leave it in the brown bag from the liquor store. Because anyone who sees a bright blue/red/green liquid in a big bottle like that, they will automatically know what it is. If the bottle is fully concealed by the bag, then its really a mystery. Plus you’ll look cooler. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boonesfarm-wine/259785/51 "2004-08-20T22:55:06Z")
I never liked the brown bag approach. I am proud to drink right from the bottle. ---
**Author:** ![beergeek279](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@beergeek279](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beergeek279)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boonesfarm-wine/259785/52 "2004-08-21T01:11:37Z")
> [@Wesley Clark](#): > > At the risk of going against the grain i really like Boones Farm wine-products. Strawberry Daiquari is easily the best flavor. But it is ‘expensive’ by my standards in regards to ethanol per $ spent. I can get 3x as much ethanol from a 750ml bottle of Wild Irish Rose for the same price as a 750ml bottle of Boones farm (roughly $2.29). > > Red Wild Irish Rose is a palatable bum wine. The ‘white wines’ like thunderbird or white Wild Irish Rose are very bitter. I’ve never tried Cisco but i should. MD20/20 isn’t bad, but its only 13% while wild irish rose is 18%. I don’t know why i bother with a 5% alcohol difference, its not major and I should get 20/20. But i buy WIR instead. Even though red Wild Irish Rose is one of the more palatible fortified wines i still hold my nose closed when i drink it and chase it with milk. The only good tasting alcohols are loaded with sugar and have a 5% alcohol content. Well, if you’re interested in that sort of ethanol value and if I’m interested in enabling, in WV I can get you 1.75L of Everclear for $30! 190 proof…just think of how little trouble getting messed up would be then!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boonesfarm-wine/259785.md?page=2)