# NRA offers bacon-flavored wine to members **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** wine\ **Created:** [September 30, 2008, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nra-offers-bacon-flavored-wine-to-members/465812 "2008-09-30T04:02:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nra-offers-bacon-flavored-wine-to-members/465812/21 "2008-10-01T02:07:40Z")
> [@chacoguy420](#): > > I got ‘a hint of graphite’ on a wine bottle once. That’s not even _food_. You laugh, but I’ve tasted a very mineraly white before. And yes, it was good. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nra-offers-bacon-flavored-wine-to-members/465812/22 "2008-10-01T02:12:12Z")
When I read the second paragraph I knew what was up. But upon first reading the title I immediately thought of a line from _The Italian Job_ where Noel Coward says, ‘For why, Keats? For why?’ It’s a line I think of often when I hear something nonsensical. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nra-offers-bacon-flavored-wine-to-members/465812/23 "2008-10-01T02:24:47Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > You laugh, but I’ve tasted a very mineraly white before. And yes, it was good. but isn’t graphite odourless and flavourless? ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nra-offers-bacon-flavored-wine-to-members/465812/24 "2008-10-01T02:38:19Z")
I’m intrigued to learn that the modern NRA apparently has a fondness for fruity California wines. This is not the organization I remember. Bacon and tobacco are admittedly a good start. But I’d have expected an NRA-promoted wine to be a bit more distinctive. “Aromas and flavors of venison, bear fat, wild turkey, Lucas gun oil, Wild Turkey, cold coffee, Cordite, shrapnel, human blood, and body odor.” ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nra-offers-bacon-flavored-wine-to-members/465812/25 "2008-10-01T11:43:58Z")
> [@thwartme](#): > > Ahh, the last requirement for the all-bacon meal has been met. It’s been done: [Iron Chef America: Iron Chef Bobby Flay vs. Susur Lee](http://www.tv.com/iron-chef-america/iron-chef-bobby-flay-vs.-susur-lee/episode/802188/recap.html?tag=overview;recap) **Theme : Bacon** **Iron Chef Dishes:** [INDENT]Shellfish and Bacon Tapas Bacon Risotto with Quail Egg and Green Onion Jerk Rubbed Whole Slab Bacon with Mango Sauce Deconstructed Pancetta Carbonara Irish Bacon with Pineapple and Jalapeno Broth **Challenger Dishes:** Irish Bacon Wrapped Pork Tenderloin Lionhead with Potatoes and Spinach Sauce Shanghai-style Pork with Cabbage, Polenta and Apples Green Onion Pancake, Quail Egg and Caviar Irish and American Bacon Scallop with Roasted Pineapple Pork Tart with Quail[/INDENT] ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nra-offers-bacon-flavored-wine-to-members/465812/26 "2008-10-01T11:54:27Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > but isn’t graphite odourless and flavourless? Dunno, I’ve never knowingly eaten any. 😉 I should ask my husband, who got his degree in geology - I know they taste-tested rocks at times. I would have gone with “mineral” or “metallic” as appropriate to the particular wine. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nra-offers-bacon-flavored-wine-to-members/465812/27 "2008-10-01T12:01:58Z")
I’ve always thought my local rifle range could really use a sommelier. ---
**Author:** ![Furious\_Marmot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nra-offers-bacon-flavored-wine-to-members/465812/28 "2008-10-01T20:28:34Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Dunno, I’ve never knowingly eaten any. 😉 I should ask my husband, who got his degree in geology - I know they taste-tested rocks at times. I would have gone with “mineral” or “metallic” as appropriate to the particular wine. Graphite doesn’t taste like much, its more of the sensation of the coolness and slipperiness of it. Kind of like a clean, lightly textured, chromed object. I suspect that most people have only tasted graphite in pencil leads, where it is mixed with clay, among other things. A mineral flavor in wine probably reminds people of earthy taste of the clay, which. Yes, I am a geolgist. I have licked earth materials. No, I’m not proud of it. ---
**Author:** ![thwartme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@thwartme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thwartme)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nra-offers-bacon-flavored-wine-to-members/465812/29 "2008-10-01T20:41:34Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > It’s been done: > [Iron Chef America: Iron Chef Bobby Flay vs. Susur Lee](http://www.tv.com/iron-chef-america/iron-chef-bobby-flay-vs.-susur-lee/episode/802188/recap.html?tag=overview;recap) > > **Theme : Bacon** > > **Iron Chef Dishes:** > > [INDENT]Shellfish and Bacon Tapas > Bacon Risotto with Quail Egg and Green Onion > Jerk Rubbed Whole Slab Bacon with Mango Sauce > Deconstructed Pancetta Carbonara > Irish Bacon with Pineapple and Jalapeno Broth > > **Challenger Dishes:** > > Irish Bacon Wrapped Pork Tenderloin > Lionhead with Potatoes and Spinach Sauce > Shanghai-style Pork with Cabbage, Polenta and Apples > Green Onion Pancake, Quail Egg and Caviar > Irish and American Bacon Scallop with Roasted Pineapple > Pork Tart with Quail[/INDENT] Yeah, but did they drink the bacon-flavoured wine? It’s not really complete without the bacon-flavoured wine. The bacon wrapped pork tenderloin cracks me up. I’m sure it’s delicious, it just strikes me as funny, “Hey, you know what would be good with this pork? More pork!” ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nra-offers-bacon-flavored-wine-to-members/465812/30 "2008-10-01T22:32:35Z")
> [@Furious\_Marmot](#): > > No cite, unfortunately, but I remember reading about a study which showed that when people described wines they used descriptors which usually matched the color, not necessarily the flavor. Reds tasted like cherries, tobacco, plums, etc. whereas whites tasted like hay, amber, saffron, etc. They amy have even fooled people into thinking they were drinking a different type of wine, switched labels and opaque glassware perhaps? I wish I could find that article. I saw one recently (N.Y. Times?) that described how some wine connoiseurs in a taste test (which must have used opaque glassware or was conducted in the dark) couldn’t tell red wine from white wine. I have major doubts that all those flavors/overtones that certain people claim to distinguish in wines are consistently reproducible between tasters. The “bacon” overtones probably come over as something entirely different to other wine drinkers - truffles, Good N’ Plenty candy, armadillo snouts - who knows? ---
**Author:** ![thwartme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@thwartme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thwartme)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nra-offers-bacon-flavored-wine-to-members/465812/31 "2008-10-02T02:36:23Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I saw one recently (N.Y. Times?) that described how some wine connoiseurs in a taste test (which must have used opaque glassware or was conducted in the dark) couldn’t tell red wine from white wine. I’ve heard of this before, but I’ve never actually seen an article or publication of the test. I’d really love to read something like that. I also have doubts as to the abilities of connoisseurs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nra-offers-bacon-flavored-wine-to-members/465812.md?page=1)