Well, not on tap, not even in boxes, but in actual corked bottles.
Here’s the AP story that caught my eye. Here’s the available labels from the winery’s website (choose the “historical” series on the left of the page.
Oh this wacky world. I’ve been much happier since I’ve learned to laugh rather than cry over the neverending supply of fruitcakes.
Brutus
September 9, 2003, 2:11am
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Damn it, minimum order from the vintner is 6 cartons, of 12 bottles each. I like my wines, and I would love some fine Che’ Guevara Chablis or Der Fuhrer Zinfandel, but 72 bottles? That would be some dinner party.
Gadfly
September 9, 2003, 2:12am
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I don’t understand why some people are getting into a tizzy over it. I mean, it’s not like they’re supporting Hitler, or something. They’re just putting his picture on a bottle. It’s kind of silly.
Just think of how much free publicity they have gotten. Genuis marketing tatic.
On the same level, I was floored when I learned about this SODA:
http://www.sodaking.com/product_info.php?products_id=351
Leninade
12oz Bottle. Many people who once escaped from the Soviet Union, upon tasting Leninade, have overwhelmingly remarked that it is “BETTER THAN EXPECTED”; and those who prefer vodka in their potables have been known mix it with Leninade and ice to make a COMMIE KAZE. The Marx Brothers would be so proud. But even if you’re a teetotaler you can get tired of Russky Chai and Drink As Lenin Drank!
At your next Party, follow the Party Line by mixing Leninade with your favourite Soviet Vodka and make COMMIE KAZES for your comrades who will then name you a Hero Of Socialist Flavour!
And around that, some great/horrid slogans:
Get hammered and sickled!
The Great October Sodalist Revolution!!
Leninade, The drink for the masses!
Genius marketing tactic? I am not sure, but is very amusing.
Miller
September 9, 2003, 7:16am
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I kinda like LENINADE: BETTER THAN EXPECTED! as a slogan.
When I clicked and explored that lin, my first and only response was laughter.
jjimm
September 9, 2003, 12:04pm
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They’re quite blatant about it being a gimmick:
the Historical Series … consist of bottles of wine of optimal quality with labels that remind us of the life lives [sic] of celebrated personages of Italian and world political history such as Che Guevara, Churcill, Francesco Giuseppe, Gramsci, Hitler, Marx, Mussolini, Napoleon and Sissi. Thanks to this invention, the wine company Alessandro Lunardelli has obtained a lot of attention from the media all over the world both for the originality of the idea and for the quality of the wines. Today approximately half of the bottles of wine produced by the company are dedicated to the to the Historical Series which by now amounts to over 50 different labels, and has become a cult object among the collectors.
The real worry for me is the person who buys the Hitler ones…
I’m just guessing that wine tastes like cat urine. Not that I would recognize it, mind you. See sig.
Never kiss an animal that can lick its own genitalia.
How bout if it *smells * like die katze pisse?
Happy
I take it that the wine is not kosher for Passover.
There’s a small wine cabinet that is listed in This Thread that seems strangely appropriate. Its a seems to be a ‘must have’ for any buyer of Hitler wine.
spogga
September 9, 2003, 10:23pm
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Seeing as how Der Fuhrer was a teetotaller it seems to me as if the wine sellers are just taking the er …piss.
Eine Reich, eine Volk, eine Pissup…heil!! Hic!