"joseph b. rosenberg" > wrote in message
...
> Someone sent me a site from BC--
> http://www.blastedchurch.com/merlot.php
>
> I thought it raised some interesting issues:
>
> Shades of Randall the Ranger!
>
> I suggest you take sometime to roam around and see all the humourous
> ravings
> on the site.
>
> 2 Questions come to mind:
> 1. Has anybody tasted these wines?(Remember I'm out of the biz and can't
> do
> any serious tasting, so I may have missed notes/comments/controversies
> about
> these wine.

Hi Joe,
I can't remember the original name of the winery (hopefully Bill Spohn
will see this and fill you in with the details) but when it changed
ownership they changed the name and their look. The labels have made a big
splash locally and personally I think have more to do with their popularity
than what is in the bottle. I have only tasted a couple of their wines (the
Merlot and one of the whites) and I would say they were average to just
above average BC wines. Like many of the reds made in BC, I found the
merlot relatively light and a little austere. I remember liking the white
better. However they have only been Blasted Church for a few years, so I
expect they will continue to get better like many of the other wineries in
BC.

The labels are a blast though. I'm not sure who regulates labels in BC or
elsewhere in Canada, but I don't recall there ever being an issue similar to
what you sometimes see with the BATF (like the 1993 Mouton-Rothschild
fiasco).

Tim O
PS- sorry about the e-mail, hit the wrong button