Gnarly, for sure!
Sep 06, 2008 | Tags: california, Daily, Wine
My second week at the new office being “professional” rather than sitting bored and talking on gchat all day prompted for a bottle of wine. So, I bought Gnarly Head Zinfandel wine, a vintage 2006 Old Vine Zin. It looked cool and everything. Why not live life on the edge?!
However, there was one slight problem. I couldn’t open the bottle! It was as if the cork was super glued in the bottle. I grunted using all my strength to open the bottle, but only to come across another slight problem.
Can you believe it? The freaking corkscrew broke! I was shocked. This never happened to me before. So, I got pliers and tried to get the screw out. That didn’t work. So I just grabbed another corkscrew, but it was the same story, the cork wouldn’t pop open.
Because I didn’t want to break another corkscrew, I just took the bottle back to the wine store to get a different bottle.
Me: Man, this is gnarly. I can’t even open this. My cork opener broke! You see, it’s funny because this wine is called Gnarly Head (points at wine cover) and it’s gnarly to open it!
Him: (laughs hard) (walks over to another part of the store and tries to open it with his own cork opener, which is fancier and doesn’t require strength) (grunts, grunts, grunts) Wow, I can’t open this either. Let me try again.
Me: Okay no problem.
Him: Oh! It’s working!
Me: Well, you know I can’t drive home with an opened bottle of wine!!
HIm: It’ll be fine, no problem. I won’t open it all the way.
Me: Okay. At least I’m sober and the police can give me all the tests they want!
Him: Haha. Okay, here you go, your gnarly wine.
The corkscrew is still stuck in the cork. You can see all the holes in this cork, which were repeated attempts to try to open the darn wine bottle!
The struggle was all worth it, because the taste was amazing and just for $12 or so bucks! The grape clusters of this wine are balanced with American, Hungarian, and French oak. As a result, this left a lingering taste on my tongue. My tongue tingled for a few seconds after taking a taste, which was awesome. It was like spicy wine. Mmm.
