Old World Palate

The Onion has released yet another hard hitting piece entitled Teens Get Drunk On Award-Winning Microbrew.  Quite hilarious. This story reminds me of an interview with University of Arizona basketball coach Lute Olsen where he spoke a bit about his love of wine.  He recounted a story about trading one of his Final Four watches for several cases of mags of Opus One while at the winery.  They shipped the cases to his house in Arizona, and when he got back to his house he found his front porch littered with empty Opus bottles that his son and his friends had finished off the night before.  Of course Lute Olsen not getting to drink a drop of his wine is terrible, but I'd argue the real tragedy is that those kids might as well have been drinking Boone's Farm for all they knew.  They were just out to get hammered.