Just For Fun: Wine Sniglets

[stevebody]

Some of you may be familiar with "sniglets", the game of creating new meanings for existing words. There are really no rules for this; it's limited only by your creativity...and, of course, your willingness to make people groan.

I was recently challenged by a guy on my high school's alumni site to come up with wine sniglets. I sat down and was stunned to come up with 76 in about an hour. I won't post all of them but here are a few to get rolling. Please feel free to add your own!

Valpolicella: Latin for "Valerie takes a voice vote in the string section".

Secondary Fermentation: Having second thoughts about wearing mink.

Cabernet: Scotsman turning down a nice glass of Cab.

Merlot: My old nag is under the weather.

Malbec: My Beck CD has a glitch.

Pinot Noir: There is no "R" in Pinot

Neutral Oak: Your dog Oakie is back from the vet's.

Bordeaux: Showing your cruise photos to a female deer.

Burgundy: The official panty of an entire Bavarian village.


"Let me do one...Let us all try to do one".
-Ernest Hemingway

[wondersofwine]

Volnay--never volunteer!
Lafite--Los Angeles footsies
Cote Rotie--where the coatcheck girl stashed your coat (Row "T")
Simi Late Harvest--pretend harvest
Steele Port--metal dock area