Truckload of Wine - Dinner Plus Drinks #144

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Guys, this podcast is off to a great start. I um tried to use the wine knife tool to open a screw top. That uh We're doing great.

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It's great. It's Friday. And we're recording in the back of the truck. We are in a truck, literally, um, on top of cases of wine. We'll tell you why in just a minute. Want to know why we're in a truck? Because we have a truck in the room lines anyhow. That's right. It's very exciting. I'm very excited. I know. I am too now that we're recording in the back of a truck.

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I think the novelty of this will be great for people. I love so. I think you got a great IG story for Country Meats, right?

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Yeah, yep, I do.

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I already have it up. Includes the uh the me going like, oh my god, I'm so excited.

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Yes, the Nick double thumbs up.

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Everything, my hopes and dreams.

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I mean, we are doing like wine at incredible prices for three days only.

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And I know a lot of people say that, but these are really like Incredible. If I had to make wine as my living, this would screw up a lot of things for my store for the rest of the year. But one time a year. I don't have to. Because if we just did wine, people be like, well, I want this wine at that price all year long. But I don't. We primarily sell meat. So I could do dumb stuff like this.

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So this is a fun treat.

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So just to, you know, like behind the curtain a little bit, your standard markup on wine is gonna be somewhere around 15 years ago, it was 40% retail. It's like 300% on a glass pour, 100% for a bottle at a restaurant.

SPEAKER_01 1:48

And is it still hold true that like when you buy a glass, you pay for the whole bag?

SPEAKER_00 1:52

That's pretty much what you're trying to do. Yep. And when so it's more like 300-400%, depending on how aggressive you are. It used to be like 40% when fine wine was becoming a thing. You know, it's either you did 15% in Wisconsin there's a minimum legal markup of 6%, which is good. Yeah. Because it stops someone from total wine coming in here and just obliterating people. Keeps us honest. Which is what they've done in Texas and California. Oh, really? Yeah, they've just obliterated people because there's no minimum markup. So there's not really independent wine stores anymore. Huh. Um, but so you would either do like the Gallo Rossi three-liter things for a very low markup and just do it on volume, or you charge a hard one. Well, more wine people came into the marketplace, more people want to do stuff, so it got down to 30, and then like 2018, people were being pretty aggressive and trying to do 25%. Too many people selling wine, we were competing with the internet. Recession hits, we all realize you can't make any money at 25%. Like, pretty much everyone's running at least a 20% overhead, 3% credit card processing fee. So, you your normal wine markup is you can assume your merchant is making 30% before any overhead expenses, staff expenses, things like that. It's not, you know, a huge. Now remember, the the exact the winery is selling it for the couple dollars more without having to do it. Yes. So if you love the wineries, buy it from them, they're gonna make a lot of money on it. Yes. Um, so for something like this, we're making about 15% on everything. And we're able to drop the margin because we got we're gonna sell through a lot more stuff. I don't want any of this left over. So come and buy it! So come and buy it, which is why we're gonna release this early, is we want to give you a little preview to the remix. And I, you know, sometimes I get yelled at, but I think it's like good to be honest, transparent, talk through some of the logistics of this. People always wonder, like, hey, are you ripping me off the entire year if you can charge a slower price of this time? Right. So I feel like if you can explain, this is what we normally work on, this is why we normally have to work on that, and this is why we can do it this one time. I think it helps everybody understand that, like, you're helping me because I'm gonna move through all this volume, I'm gonna um get on some allocation lists for some stuff I want to get on. Uh so it helps everybody. So I just like explaining that little bit of behind the curtain.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

Yeah, behind the curtain. So we're gonna um taste through a couple of the wines while we are talking to you today, and there will be some samples during the sale as well.

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Today we started with the Francis Coppola Diamond Collection Chardonnay.

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You wanna know my feedback?

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It's Chardonnay.

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It's warm Chardonnay. It's warm Chardonnay.

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I gotta chill this down. Uh, our good friend from Delicado is gonna sample this out.

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I don't mind Chardonnay anymore, guys. I'm a grown adult.

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It's it's like this, so this was a late ad because my friend Joe from uh the peoples that sell this was like, please just add one of the copla wines on. Oh. I was like, okay, Joe.

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I mean that's a perfectly delicious.

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And so this is one that made sense. Made sense.

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Um plus you can get it after an can we announce prices?

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Yes, we can announce prices.

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Nine dollars only, guys, after a $1 instant coupon.

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My other favorite thing is this will start a war because retailers get really mad about like, well, how could they sell for that much? Because in the state of Wisconsin, if you do a deal for someone, you have to do a deal for everybody. Now it could be a very limited time frame deal, and we did this on a deal that's available to a lot of people. We're just more aggressive about it and smarter about marking it than.

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We have a great marketing team.

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Such an incredible marketing team. Jenna is the best.

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The best.

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I don't know who her boss is, but so we uh laid out on this one, but I love it. We have butter as your like if you want rich buttery Chardonnay.

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I do love butter. I know it makes me feel judged by you anytime I drink it.

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Oh, should we open butter? I know I like butter.

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Plus me literally opening Plus I love warm wine. Oh, here we go, here we go. We have a It is um about 38 degrees this morning.

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I thought it would be chillier in here. I thought it would be chillier.

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But it's nice and warm in this truck, guys.

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So let's uh, you know, we can side by side a neutral no-oak Chardonnay uh with um butter. Butter. Which pretty much explains itself. My favorite butter story. This is made by John Anthony Truechard. Tastes like a jar of butter. Yeah. His brother Anthony Truechard is the guy that has been on this podcast. Yep, he's so great. And uh he runs a family vineyard, Truechard. John Anthony left. And I had had some family business drama, and I was hanging out with Anthony and my wife. My wife, to be clear, was somewhere in the background chasing butterflies because she was had some wine. Very, very enjoying her experience. Had some wine. I just thought she was enjoying her experience. That's true. You're right. Also, there were some cats in the vineyard that she was playing with, and she never plays with cats. I was like, that does not sound like Sarah. It was incredible. The pinot noir there, like untouchable. So we um we were talking, I was like, yeah, man, I just family. He's like, well, my brother came up with this idea called butter. I told him it was the stupidest idea ever, would never make any money. He makes 500,000 cases, I make 50,000. Numbers aren't quite right, but something like that. And we're just like, Damn. Cheers. True shard wine, though, so good. So he's a patent lawyer and he like chose to chase passion. Do this for fun. Yeah, like he's no, he like chose to say, like, I'm not doing it for money, I'm doing it for pride and like things that matter to me and not just dollars.

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If you are new to this podcast, I have waxed poetic a a million times about Truchard Tempernillo being one of my favorite non-cab drinking wines. I don't only drink cab, everybody. True shard Temperanillo is one of my faves. Um, I oh, isn't that story the two buck chocolate Trader Joe's? Isn't it a similar story with like a family middle finger like, screw you, I'm gonna make this cheap ass wine and sell millions?

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Well, Ernie Gallo of Gallo Wines just died. And that was a lot of people are really sad about it. I'm like, that MFer like took and bastardized wines, and he was one of the most ruthless, like, Italian. Oh, you like this brand? I would like Fetzer, he ruined Fetzer. So, like, he bought Fetzer or the name, sold off the vineyards, put it into jug wine, it's like, hey everybody, Fetzer, $5 cheaper.

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Jug wine, yes.

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So I don't know, RFP, Ernie Gallo?

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Uh well. Okay, so we should say the butter also. Butter is $11 after a $1 instant coop.

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And let's be real, there's like four sticks of butter in there. You can't even buy a stick of butter for, you know, $280 or whatever it is.

SPEAKER_01 8:42

Yeah, like guess again. I'm gonna just divert real quickly. It cost $95 to fill my car up the other day.

SPEAKER_00 8:48

Big oil doesn't want Joe Biden to be elected, so they're jacking the prices.

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I mean, I'm just saying. What's the best is we have the um door open just a little bit, and so we can just see people's feet as they creep by wondering what the people in the truck are yelling about.

SPEAKER_00 9:03

Now, in the list of one more, so we figured we'd try a couple wines. We're gonna put this out early, tell you guys, hey, come try these for yourself, pick up some bottles, save the money.

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It's great for gifting or everyday drinking or holiday parties, because that's coming up, everybody.

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If you can't make it out here during the actual sale time period, which uh you're not gonna make it Friday the 7th because we're releasing this later, but Saturday the 8th, noon to 3, Sunday the 9th, noon to 2, and you have the bonus of me and my little brother Michi, or as we call him, Chi Chi. Chi Chi. Um there is an online site that we'll link to that. You can then come pick it up later. We can't chip, I apologize. Call your legislator in the state of Wisconsin and tell them to stop doing whatever the Tavern League tells him to do. Time to take a road trip to Wisconsin and pick up your wine, everybody. But also, or just write him a check because that's what the Tavern League does. I always tell people, they're like, oh, call your legislator, your voice manager. I'm like, no, it doesn't. No. Writing them a campaign check is what matters.

SPEAKER_01 10:06

But I mean, also vote anyway.

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Get money out of politics.

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Please vote anyway.

SPEAKER_00 10:10

Have you seen the articles coming out about Mandela Barnes? Which ones? So, we obviously were being on the Lazary train here at Zinner Plus Drinks.

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That didn't work out great for us. Kiss of death. But yeah, so if you want to be a guest.

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So Mandela has the whole Republican attack train going against him. Republicans are the best at attack ads. And especially a black man from Milwaukee in a state full of people that are afraid of black men from Milwaukee is pretty easy to do.

SPEAKER_01 10:39

Yep. Young black man from a poor family.

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Honestly, I don't think anyone can really deny that. Someone will, but it is what it is. Uh Mandela's like not spending any money. Yeah. He's not doing any ads. He's not doing like, you know what? This is racist. Don't stop it. Like, he's not coming out swinging, and he's doing like, well, I'm just who I am. That's not to No. That's why you're not gonna win.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:08

Do you want to win? You know what's more important than being who you want to be? Winning.

SPEAKER_01 11:12

He doesn't come across like a fighter though, so it might come across disingenuous.

SPEAKER_00 11:16

Like, come out swinging. People So there's articles now. A New York Times article came out about an interaction you had with a voter that, you know, like paid the 200 bucks for the meet and greet and said, like, hey man, I'm really worried that you haven't taken any attack ads out. Oh, really? He's like, well, I saw I'm like, he's like, no, no, no, no, no. Like, you look like a punk. Which he does.

SPEAKER_01 11:36

I love that someone paid to tell him that at an event.

SPEAKER_00 11:39

I mean, I honestly might. I'd be like, hey dude, I want to be very clear, I'm gonna vote for you because I don't want Ron Johnson to win. But you're a terrible candidate, and everything I was worried you're gonna do, you're doing. Oh, well, I'm I paid you $200, so you have to listen to this.

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But no, yeah.

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Okay, you guys, so since we would normally be discussing a news story right now, I have to share one anyway, since we're whining because that's what we do. Okay, listen. Have you seen, since we've been talking about the happy meals, have you seen the articles now that McDonald's employees are like begging adults to calm the hell down and like stop buying the happy meals? Sorry, I just blew your eardrums. Stop buying the happy meals because we don't have enough staff. So, I mean, it's working. Uh, but our friend Melissa Jordan also helped clarify in my head why these were called cactus, whatever the hell they're called. Apparently, it's some fashion line. Did you know that?

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I didn't until I saw her.

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I heard her talk about it on the radio because I was like, I don't know why it's called whatever it's called. But anyway, so McDonald's workers are begging people to stop ordering the adult happy meals, which I think is awesome. They thought Pokemon Happy Meals were gonna like be the thing that ended all things. I think they're just ramping up because when those trick-or-treat buckets come out in like a week, guess who's going to McDonald's every day?

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Oh, yeah. Your girl Bridget. We had our employee appreciation party uh the earlier this week, and I smartly stopped there to grab a hamburger before I went out because I'm like, I know I'm not gonna like eat enough and like I'm gonna be running all over.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:06

So thank god I did. Smart of you! Because then like by the time I like I got over the food, there's like some quesadillas left, which were delicious.

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I did not have the quesadilla.

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I they were like a big chunky quesadilla, so I couldn't eat that many.

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Yeah.

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Um, but uh I saw them and I was like, oh my god.

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Yeah.

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I want. I want them.

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Well, I didn't realize the McDonald's Happy Meal only had 10-piece nuggets and Big Mac, so honestly, neither of those things were my jam. So I didn't get it, but I will be there in line to get the plastic bucket.

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I do like the um 10-piece nugget.

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I mean I have never in my life had a McDonald's chicken nugget. Do you know that?

SPEAKER_00 13:45

No, I maybe not had one.

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Because, like, well, I love chicken, that is fake ass chicken.

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No, it's not. I'm not gonna believe it. Have I shown you the meat glue videos? Please don't ever show. So we experimented with meat glue.

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Yeah.

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And there's some really cool things you can do with meat glue.

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Like bound chicken, you know how it just looks bound? I can't do it.

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It's called transglutaminase. Okay, nope, nope. Let's not ruin it for everybody. Do you know how uh here's more behind the scenes. Again, open, transparent, nick voorbagel.

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Did you know that's what you're getting today, everybody?

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So transglutaminase, basically, like when you spin, uh, like you're a blood donor, you did the mega deep purple, double red.

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Yeah, I almost died. I'm never doing it again.

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I'll give regular blood. When you spin that stuff out, one of the things you get is transglutaminase, and it's what causes stuff, your blood to bind together. Coagulate? Yeah. I love that word. Coagulate, causes you to coagulate. Coagulate. So uh if you get that, you can make all these like cut-up pieces of meat stick together like it's one thing. So if you ever see a bistro steak, oh, in your previous life as catering sales, how many bistro steaks did you sell? I don't actually I don't think we've sold bistro steaks. Like little fillets, like four ounce fillets? Yeah.

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That's coagulated meat. You guys, well, um, since, again, we're not following our same normal outline, but I am deep interested in the McDonald's Happy Meal game. Um, so this Cactus Plant Flea Market, right? That's what it's called. So that is apparently a fashion brand, so I just Googled them. They have their own website of McDonald's branded shit. They're selling crew neck sweatshirts for $80 with Grimace on them.

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Oh.

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I want one now. It's my product recommendation. I want this blue hoodie, Cactus Plant Flea Market, $150. Really, this Grimace hoodie is where it's at. Oh no, that's a long sleeve, not a hoodie. Sorry. There is a sweatshirt that says moist towelette. It's $130. Anyway, we'll add a link to that in the show notes. Nick, I put it on the outline as my product rec. Um, I don't think we told the people what we're trying now.

SPEAKER_00 15:58

Can I just say it's very gentlemanly of a man to give his woman something to just say moist towelette?

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Moist towelette. Oh my god, you guys. It's literally a picture of a McDonald's moist toilette like package on a shirt.

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Just be very like, just wear that and then just point to your shirt afterwards to say, like, hey, moist toilette.

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I just this like four-eye.

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No, I thought that said I dripped. I'm like, oh gross.

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This four-eye situation seems to be like their Oh my. Seems to be like their cactus plant play markets, like thing.

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This is incredible.

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Anyway, so there's a great product rec for you all. Christmas gifts for everyone.

SPEAKER_00 16:38

So now we have moved on to Dow Rose. Yeah. And what do you think is more pretty? The wine or the bottle? The bottle is beautiful.

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That was going to be the one thing I said about it.

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I mean, this is an incredible flower files.

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It's actually, I know. It's actually, um, some roses have a little, uh, what how do I describe this face? Like, you know, it's like almost a little tart?

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That's exactly how you describe it.

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Okay, great. I made a face to Nick. So this is really smooth.

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We're given some candy that you thought was not a Skittle, but says a lemon drop. What would your face look like? Exactly what I just did. Exactly what Bridget just did.

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So this is Dow Rose, that will be $15, and is a beautiful hostess gift, I would say. I feel like rose is a safe gift if you don't know if people like red or white.

SPEAKER_00 17:25

The Dow wines are, you know, our high-end one on this. And they are so delicious, so good. Um it's a really interesting story because it's uh Lebanese immigrants, which is why Dao is the name of it. D-A-O-U. And the guys, um, oh shit, I should have done this for your dad. I'm sorry. I didn't think of this. So rude. They uh they moved here from Lebanon, they um became tech people, and then they decided so they have like a jillion dollars from tech, and then they decide they wanted to do wine. And um, so it's like an immigrant story, and they approach wine in a way not a lot. The guy's names are George J I'm sorry, G-E-O-R-G-E-S, that type of George. Okay. And Daniel Dow, Lebanese. Um they approach wine in a very different way. They have like this Lebanese thing, they have like this French thing, and then they have like tech dude thing, and also like family thing. They're very stylish.

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Stylish people?

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Yep. Okay. They also view it as like a lifestyle brand, they call it their mountain Dow Mountain, they have all these partnerships. They call it their mountain. Scotty Cameron. Putters.

SPEAKER_01 18:44

Oh, I'm like, what? I don't know who that is.

SPEAKER_00 18:45

So I had an opportunity, I still got a free Scotty Cameron putter. I should have given it to you to give to your dad.

SPEAKER_01 18:50

Yeah, hello. His birthday and Christmas are two days apart. It's very hard to buy gifts for him.

SPEAKER_00 18:54

He if you would have given him a Scotty Cameron putter, he would have Yeah. Shannon bye! Bye! Scotty, bye!

SPEAKER_01 19:01

I would have to I would have to say we all went in on this, otherwise he would know it's free.

SPEAKER_00 19:06

Uh I did do a driver instead for my dad.

SPEAKER_01 19:11

Oh, that's nice. Yeah, you probably should do it for your dad. No, I think it's a good one. Will he appreciate that? Like, will he know? A Scotty Cameron putter? No, your dad, not my dad.

SPEAKER_00 19:20

Oh yeah, my dad knew, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:21

Oh, I was like, no, no. Um I don't know the level of your dad's golf.

SPEAKER_00 19:25

My dad's insane.

SPEAKER_01 19:26

Yeah. He's insane.

SPEAKER_00 19:27

So Dow makes very good wines. Um, I've always thought, so they take this like tech nerd approach to some things, with how they do data and use data in the approach of wine. And sometimes when you do wine by data, and I love data. And I love data. It gets a little soulless and it gets a little like color by numbers instead of wine making is an art. There's definitely science to it. Three sheeps, my bro, Grant. You'll know I love my bro. They're saying is um science and art meat. Science what? Science and art meat. Oh, okay. And that's the thing is there's a little bit of like, meh, you know, there's a little bit more of this. But there's also like, no, we gotta hit these numbers. Um, so I like that. So Dow feels a little too much on the science side, but I'm coming around on them, they're dialing it in, and I think some of their approach is honestly a little soulless. Uh, and I've said this to them, but it's creating incredible results, and they're sticking with it, and I really like it.

SPEAKER_01 20:22

Oh, they are stylish.

SPEAKER_00 20:24

I have to look them up. It's incredible.

SPEAKER_01 20:25

Um, so yeah, as Nick said, these are the high-end wines of our sale. So a high-end wine, guys, is $15.

SPEAKER_00 20:34

Just giving you an idea here. We are having also a really with their so Dow makes some high, true high-end wines.

SPEAKER_01 20:42

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 20:42

Um, and we're doing a really cool event with them and early mention raunchies.

SPEAKER_01 20:47

Oh, mid-mention.

SPEAKER_00 20:49

Mid-mention raunchies uh coming up on Tuesday, that's gonna be the 18th. Off the MFing Heezy.

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The MFing Heezy, everybody. Yeah, we're doing a really great event with Dow. So it's gonna be here at Lake Shima Country Meets.

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We're gonna fancy it up in a way. Their SVP Mae is gonna be here. She's like a super incredible presenter, like, brings the noise. Uh it's gonna be awesome. Like, if you wanna get in on understanding, we're gonna start with their the pessimist blend, which we have, which is everybody's favorite house wine, and it's $20 on our sale. Um, we're gonna start with that. So, like, this is what we do, and then we're gonna go up from there. Um, podcast listener exclusive. There's four wines listed, we're not gonna pour four wines.

SPEAKER_01 21:35

That is a podcast listener exclusive! What?

SPEAKER_00 21:39

There's gonna be some bonus wine. I'm not sure exactly which one it's gonna be, but But it's gonna be good. Also, like, this is an event that's being subsidized, so It's gonna be beautiful. You're paying twenty five dollars, and let me tell you It's worth more than that.

SPEAKER_01 21:54

It's worth a lot more than twenty five dollars because that means Bridget gets to actually get flowers. And beautiful things.

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It's gonna be incredible.

SPEAKER_01 22:02

Yeah, it's gonna be beautiful.

SPEAKER_00 22:03

Incredible.

SPEAKER_01 22:04

It's uh we're trying to get you out of your uh uh weeknight routine. So come up on the weeknight and lay out.

SPEAKER_00 22:11

Tell your man to stay at home with your kids. Bring your girlfriend who told her man to stay at home with the kids. And then, um yeah.

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Alright. I was nervous for this wine that we just poured. I'm gonna be honest.

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So we did the three-finger jack.

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Uh terrible name.

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It's such a bad such a bad name. Uh Cabernet last week.

SPEAKER_01 22:37

Yes. Which is I maybe one of my new favorites.

SPEAKER_00 22:39

So instead we did the rum barrel aged red wine blend.

SPEAKER_01 22:43

Which is much better than I thought simply because I previous barrel-aged wines you've had me try, I do not like.

SPEAKER_00 22:49

I do not like a lot of them. I actually think this is alcohol barrel aged.

SPEAKER_01 22:51

This is smooth. Um, both of these three finger jacks are only $10 after a $1 coupe. And yes, guys, I'm just gonna buy out all of the three-finger jack cabs, so come fight me for it, okay? No. But yeah, these are each only $10. This is nice and smooth. It's very nice. But like the also, these are great gifting bottles because they look more expensive than $10.

SPEAKER_00 23:15

Oh yeah. Well, and like they're published at $16. Yeah, so they're $10 after $1.60% premium on your gifting dollars.

SPEAKER_01 23:27

This one, if I remember correctly from last week was the one that had to open up a bit. Where I first tried it and was like, ugh, and then it became my fave. Um, yeah, but I just love these bottles. I know that's silly, but my a lot of my friends don't this is gonna sound pretentious, don't know as much as I do about wine simply because I've learned through you, Nick. Um, so people, you know. This one. We just knucked knuckles. So I could give any of these as a gift. Maybe not the coppola or the butter, but I could give these other two as a gift. Things I'm proud of in my life.

SPEAKER_00 23:57

My beautiful daughter. Who will my flowers?

SPEAKER_01 24:02

My plants.

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Bridget's evolution as a wine drinker.

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I mean, I'm proud of that too, for me.

SPEAKER_00 24:08

And like you haven't changed that much, but you're just so much more aware and articulate. Like you always had You're my diamond in the rough. Oh, Nick! You always had the instinct.

SPEAKER_01 24:17

I am a diamond.

SPEAKER_00 24:19

You always knew, but you just weren't able to articulate it. And you had the passion to want to be like, I want to be able to narrow it down a little bit more. Yes. And you've done it. I'm really proud of you.

SPEAKER_01 24:29

I just want to make a face and I need you to know what kind of line I like from that.

SPEAKER_00 24:33

It's like Sarah. Sarah has, I kid you not, the most incredible palette of anybody I've ever met. That's great. She can pick very specific sub-regions of areas. Whoa. That take a lot of not a skill of mine. It's incredible how good her palette is.

SPEAKER_01 24:48

Can she do that with food too?

SPEAKER_00 24:50

No.

SPEAKER_01 24:50

Oh, I want to do a blind taste test like they do on Massword's show.

SPEAKER_00 24:53

She more knows like I like it or I don't like it. And like with the wine she can't necessarily like, it comes from like the Rutherford bench. But you can do three wines that you would probably be like, oh, they're all because they are very close. They're within like a 5% band. Yeah. And Sarah's like, no, this one's different, this one's different, this one's different. And like she doesn't have quite the right vocabulary the not the right vocabulary, but the like the vocabulary we would use in the industry. Yeah. But she can tell you what tastes. And we've done like professional tastings where people are like, What? Is she in the industry too?

SPEAKER_01 25:28

We're making you come to the Dow dinner, Sarah.

SPEAKER_00 25:31

It's incredible. I'm I love it. It's so cool. Uh it and that was the other fun thing to see where like she only likes sweet wines, and now she likes all sorts of wines and Sarah used to? Oh.

SPEAKER_01 25:41

It's just as that's her palette. I love you all, but that is a beginner wine thing, right? This is like, I don't drink beer. Yeah. I was that girl. I'm like, um, I only do shots. Shots, shots, I won't change beer.

SPEAKER_00 25:54

Shots, shots, shots, shots.

SPEAKER_01 25:55

Oh, what an asshole I must have been.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

So anyway. It's okay. Okay, okay. So, um, I hope you guys have enjoyed this kind of rambling fun thing preview of our sale. These are all bottles that we have people sampling later. Um, so we needed to open them at some point. Anyway, thought it'd be fun to test them out. Test them out ourselves. We're gonna end with the Dow Cabernet, which I know is the winner.

SPEAKER_01 26:23

So, so you know, I would say the prices we have told you are all of the more expensive bottles. So it gives you an idea of what a good deal everything is at this sale. Um, we tried that 1924 last week as well, but we didn't reveal the price. Do you think we should? We should. So this was a super jammy cab. Um, this one I think is awesome for people that maybe like, you know, like red wine, think they like red blends, but aren't sure. It's a fruity jammy cab. Seven dollars, everybody. Also.

SPEAKER_00 26:54

After a coupon. The greatest lesson you'll learn in the Bible is serve the shitty wine second. Okay. Did the Bible teach you that? Oh yeah, remember the wedding at Cana? So Jesus turns water into wine. Uh-huh. And everybody tastes the wine. They're like, you idiot! You're supposed to serve the good wine first, then move to inferior wine. And like, depending on which version of the Bible you read, like, the American versions are more like natural language, but the old, like, you know, the Protestant, uh, like King James version is like super stuffy language about it. It's like, you dunce, you shall know that it's anyway. Right, right. The 1924 is also a really good, like, second bottle of like, hey, if you guys are gonna do something with dinner, maybe start with three-finger Jack, Josh, Dow. Right. But then whenever it's like, ah, one more bottle! One more though, do the 1924. Okay. Because it's gonna taste really yummy.

SPEAKER_01 27:48

And again, another really good-looking bottle. Yeah. Um, I have a food I need to talk about. I know we're not doing our normal um outline, but I was in Burlington. Me and the fam took a trip to Menards, because you know, home renovations.

SPEAKER_00 28:02

You wanna save big money.

SPEAKER_01 28:03

Hashtag home renovations. Wait, hey. Shop man. I will say I never really appreciated the rebate thing, but I did save a bunch of money on all of my bathroom.

SPEAKER_00 28:13

Until that check comes in until you say you saved a bunch of money.

SPEAKER_01 28:16

Are they I know you said they're shisty, and I'm nervous about it.

SPEAKER_00 28:18

They're not shisty, they just like.

SPEAKER_01 28:20

What are they gonna do? I followed all of them.

SPEAKER_00 28:23

Oh, you did got this eye. So good.

SPEAKER_01 28:26

Because you told me that, I was very careful about it.

SPEAKER_00 28:28

Yeah, so like we've had a couple things where they're like, oh, actually, like and they send a letter back and they say this is how you can fix it. They're just all of it is buying themselves time. I'm gonna throw a fit about it.

SPEAKER_01 28:38

And like it's like $40 for the record. That's not the end of the world, but um, but we went to Menard's and we had not I mean, this is good. I mean, this is this is delicious. We had not ever been to Fred's in Burlington. World's best burger. Yeah, and so we just took the kits and it was delicious and so dare I say cheap, but in a world where you're like you can't really go and get a burger that's not clearly like a frozen patty for I would say less than like $14. These were so good, and I want to say like seven bucks or something. Anyway, highly recommend that. Fred have you eaten there? Oh, all the time, yeah. Oh my god. I want to go back every day. Everything was so affordable and just like good Wisconsin-e bar food, you know?

SPEAKER_00 29:20

Also, I don't like their fries. That's the problem. They have like string fries.

SPEAKER_01 29:24

I'm not a fan of those, I like them, but yeah, I can see that.

SPEAKER_00 29:28

Yeah, so Lil Daily is right across the street. That's the Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:32

Well, we had the kids, we just actually needed to feed them dinner so they could fall asleep on the drive home. Because it was like late, we we kept them at Menard's all.

SPEAKER_00 29:39

You know how else you beat them to fall asleep on the ride home? A beer. A beer.

SPEAKER_01 29:42

Just kidding, everybody.

SPEAKER_00 29:43

No, you're not just kidding. It's Wisconsin. It's legal. Don't be ashamed.

SPEAKER_01 29:48

You know the car stroll um like the carts that have like our car in front of it? Well, Elliot still like really wants to ride in those because he's only six, but he looks like he's ten. So Elliot and Lucy both like crawled into this car. Like, Elliot's like knees are up at his face. It was very adorable and a little frustrating.

SPEAKER_00 30:05

I again, so I'm a soccer fan. You see all these pictures! You see all these pictures of goaltenders are generally the tallest people on the pitch because you know, being tall is an advantage in blocking a goal. Yes. But it's not necessarily an advantage when you are a midfielder and you to dribble past someone. There's more of you to kick. It's harder for you to control your feet.

SPEAKER_01 30:28

And you have a much larger uh center grafty.

SPEAKER_00 30:31

Center grafty, yeah. Yeah, there's some forwards that are very tall and like headers and stuff like that. You get an advantage. But um, so you see these like pictures of Gabrielle Solonina, who when he was he's this like giant Czech American dude that was in Chicago and just signed for Chelsea. Okay. Joe Cole. Oh, Joe Cole. Um, you see his pictures of six. He looks like Elliot. We're like, oh shit, you're a foot taller than the other kids, and you have a beard already.

SPEAKER_01 30:58

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_00 30:59

I just when I see Elliot Ingle, I'm like, you look like every picture of a professional goalkeeper I've ever seen at that age. Because he's got like the I like when you watch him play like basketball or something, he's not at all athletic. No, well, but like in soccer, he's got like the the stance. Yeah, he's got he's on the balls of his feet, he's leaning forward, knees bent, arms out. I'm like, bro. Bro.

SPEAKER_01 31:22

I mean, uh Elliot, it's been so exciting. He does have the stance, but like he's so excited to be in the goal. So he has the stance, he's like missing a lot of other things. But he, I mean, really, he's been a goalie for one month.

SPEAKER_00 31:34

Yes. I'm so excited. Everything else you're like, okay, you're like a big athletic kid, but you don't necessarily have the like natural motion. He's just a big kid. I wouldn't say he's athletic yet. I mean, when he runs and stuff, he's got like.

unknown 31:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:44

We'll see. But it's not like you're like it's not like you're watching Mo Ferrar or something. Yeah. You're like, oh my god. Oh, that person. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:51

He has signed up for Little Dribblers basketball, so I'm excited about that. Um, so let's talk about Kid Corner! Oh come on, damn it! I I thought, but I wasn't sure. Okay, it's time for Kid Corner. It's funnier when we mess it up.

SPEAKER_00 32:05

Guys, it's a struggle. Yeah. Simona is in like a very like unfortunate, discouraging stage.

SPEAKER_01 32:12

She's almost three, that's why.

SPEAKER_00 32:13

I've had the like, it's really hard to hear people say mean things about your kid, even if they're true. And not like mean things was teachers be like, hey, Simona was flipping tables and throwing things at friends.

SPEAKER_01 32:25

Like, no, my kid is perfect.

SPEAKER_00 32:26

And like, some of it's like, mmm, I've never seen her exhibit that behavior before, so like I'm not blaming you, but like, could you so it's like the conversation like let's talk about like what triggered this, how can Right, but it's still like just like horrible to hear. Um it is the worst. And like because you don't hear hear bad things about your kids until they're about three. Yeah, and like so it's just like sad, and like, how can we make this better and all the things, all the stuff.

SPEAKER_01 32:56

I know, man. I feel for you because I remember with my first everyone telling you two's gonna be the worst, right? Terrible two. And I'm like, no, no, three major, three major. Well, I hate to tell tell you that I think one more year is gonna be hard, but then it evens out and they're like uh a little more mature human beings.

SPEAKER_00 33:15

Well, and that's part of the problem, too, is it's like you're in the thing where like can't quite logic with them, and like it's the worst. Yeah, so it's just like been in like soccer. She likes about 30 minutes of it, and then boom, done. Yeah. And so, like, why is this person doing this and I can't? And like, younger kid, yeah, older kid.

SPEAKER_01 33:36

Well, and it I mean, for you guys, you don't have to deal with that because there isn't a sibling at home. Because yeah, where me, I I what I have found with three-year-old soccer is like that I'm clearly the mean parent because I'm one of the only three-year-old parent soccer parents that has an older sibling. Yeah. So all these other parents are so kind to their kid. It's okay if you don't want to play. Yeah, you can go on the playground. And I'm like, no, you signed up for this, you're gonna play. Well, and that's the screen with us.

SPEAKER_00 34:00

Because we're like, no, you can play soccer or you can go home.

SPEAKER_01 34:04

Well, and if you quit, then you're done. That's what I mean. Like, yes, fine, you can all yell at me about youth sports. I'm not doing it to like make them a pro athlete. I'm trying to teach them something. Yeah, you can go on the playground when you're done playing in the grass with your friends. It's not like they're freaking like doing drills, you guys are running in circles in the grass. I know. It's it's this three-year-old soccer has been an interesting, like, case study.

SPEAKER_00 34:26

It has been.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

Yeah, because we know all this. Also, God bless that coach. Like, I know, and she's so patient and kind.

SPEAKER_00 34:32

And she's just so excited for them to be introduced to the game, and she's like going above and beyond and like organizing stuff.

SPEAKER_01 34:37

And Lucy straight up attaches herself to her. Like, we'll sit touching her legs when they they like stretch and do cooldowns.

SPEAKER_00 34:44

It's so cute. Also, I mean, someone like legitimately got her eyes poked last week, so Oh really? Yeah, so it's kind of like uh I mean punch the kid back.

SPEAKER_01 34:53

I know you shouldn't cheat. Someone poked her in the eyes on purpose? Oh, that's funny. I mean, it's not funny.

SPEAKER_00 35:00

You know the kid that like wears full kit and like is way into it? I don't. Yeah, there's probably the kid I know about, so there's like real shorts and real cleats and stuff already?

SPEAKER_01 35:09

No, I don't not recognize it. I have two kids playing soccer, everybody, so I only half pay attention to each of them. So if I'm being honest, I'm split in half.

SPEAKER_00 35:18

Well, guys, um, I hope you all come out to uh I didn't tell you anything about my kids.

SPEAKER_01 35:24

Oh yeah, you didn't. It's not very funny, but it was like, oh, my kid's smarter than us. So Elliot has been really into football, which has been great because I love nothing more than watching a Packers game on Sundays. With all the cheesy dips. With all the cheesy dips. Um, and so every Sunday the kids like asked to put on their Packers clothes because we made them do it once. And so we were just like driving back from Burlington, and instead of falling asleep in the car, like we thought, Elliot was asking all the questions. He's in that phase, like we're in first grade.

SPEAKER_00 35:52

What's the difference between a flanker and a split end?

SPEAKER_01 35:54

Not that, yet, but like, who has the biggest NFL stadium? Is one of the questions he asked. And he was making a guess, and Tyler was like, no, no, it's this. So I I looked it up because Tyler was driving. The Bears have the smallest stadium. That's probably why they're the Packers, yes, and the the Packers have the second largest. Is it Foxboro is the biggest one?

SPEAKER_00 36:16

Uh the Jets. Oh, so it's the Jets and the Giants.

SPEAKER_01 36:20

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 36:21

Yeah. So that makes sense. MetLife.

SPEAKER_01 36:22

Yep. That's what it is, yes. And so, and the Packers are the second. We just, Tyler was like, oh, probably the Packers are smaller because they get all Green Bay, not a big city. I know. But so it was a fun conversation, and I'm like, oh man, our kid's gonna be smarter than us in one minute.

SPEAKER_00 36:36

Good job, Elliot.

SPEAKER_01 36:37

So anyway, come on out to our truckload, and you know, it's like a flea market. Yeah, it's like a flea market. So it's like my heaven, everybody. Sadly, I have a I have a family wedding, so I will not be here to greet you, but I will be thinking of you.

SPEAKER_00 36:52

Thanks for listening. We'll see you next week with a more normal episode. Maybe. Maybe it'll be something else fun.

SPEAKER_01 36:59

Have a great week, guys. Come get yourself some great fun.