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Default Wine tasting, no alcohol

On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:39:46 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:08:29 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
>> Now you can taste a sample of wine with no alcohol.
>> http://tinyurl.com/pumm353
>>
>> Beringer created a shelf-mounted merchandising fixture called the
>> Taste Station.
>>
>> The self-serve display dispenses flavor strips wrapped individually in
>> flexible packaging. Each Taste Station holds a stack of the flat,
>> rectangular foil pouches and dispenses them one at a time. Beringer
>> currently is testing the concept in Kroger stores in 20 states.

>
>I see people taking 5 or 10 of those at a time just because they're
>novel. They can't be cheap to produce either. At least $.06/ea. And
>are they really accurate representations of the wine?
>
>-sw


I'm sure they are NOT an accurate representation of the taste of the
wine. And Beringer's does make SOME very good wines, and a lot of not
so great ones.

John Kuthe...

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