Co-operative wine glasses

Drinking alone, they say, is a bad idea. These cooperative wine glasses force you to work together with your drinking partner to share a bottle of wine.

Although we suppose you could manage to drink on your own by holding one glass high in the air while drinking out of the other one...

Cape Barren 2003 Old Vines Shiraz

"Not a fruit bomb" was Margaret Anne's first comment on this Australian Cape Barren 2003 Old Vines Shiraz. It certainly has big flavour, but it's more in the leathery, smokey-oak sort of way. We didn't get the cloves/cinnamon flavours one expects from Shiraz, though the pepper was certainly there. We're not sure how much of that was from the grapes, though, and how much was from the extremely high alcohol content--15 percent. Maybe our tongues were just burning.

Quite possibly we drank this too young and it will become better balanced with age.

Wine on tap?

We don't host dinner parties of the size that would require this...

(Via Gizmodo.)