Monoprix's Beaujolais: Pas Mal; I swear I was just getting some mouthwash. The devil made me buy it.

I swear, I was in Monoprix to pick up some mouthwash and a few chocolates but the display of B.N. dazzled me and I was forced to buy a bottle of it for 3.50 E - the HBS marketing guys will tell you it's all in the display case, and they're correct.   Smack in the eyeballs, irresistible.

And yawannaknow, it's drinkable, from Monoprix, argggh.  3.50 E.   Hummm.  Maybe the experts in Allston should come here and see how it's done so they can pep or prop up the US market.

Comments

[John Whiting]

From Bertrand Russell's Nobel Prize acceptance speech of 1950:

When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the gospel to pumpkin pie. These, however, much as we may regret it, most savages receive with indifference. What they really value among the gifts that we bring to them is intoxicating liquor which enables them, for the first time in their lives, to have the illusion for a few brief moments that it is better to be alive than dead.

[Laidback]

If ever I come to your place for dinner, I will gladly bring the wine!

[John Talbott]

Ok, so New Year's Eve maybe, but no bubbly.