Subliminal messages?

After having had a few drinks over the weekend, I was trying not to drink too much alcohol this week. However, when watching TV last night I saw an advert for “BT Total Broadband”, which for some reason made me really fancy a beer with my dinner. Do I have a problem? If so, is it a problem with drink or a problem with being told what to do?

Labels: advertising, booze, TV

Wine tasting

I went on an introduction to wine tasting evening yesterday at Oddbins. Four whites, four reds and two Huber dessert wines — an eiswein and a trockenbeerenauslesen. Was swallowing not spitting (seemed a shame to waste it) so ended up drinking a fair bit of wine. Highlights were a Spanish Ribera del Duero, the Vega Sicilia Valbuena 2002, which apparently retails at 75 nicker a bottle and a 2005 Australian Shiraz, D’Arenberg’s “The Dead Arm”. I was sufficiently carried away by my enthusiasm to buy a couple of bottles of the latter, which is presumably why they are happy for people to swallow rather than spit!

Labels: booze