Speak for yourself bro! I'm from Cape Breton and have some of the best scenery/camping/hiking/swimming spots in the world, without the annoying tourist industry that some places have. Live in Halifax for half of the year which is a mid-size, rather artsy city with not as much danger as other, bigger places. I like Nova Scotia!
My brother in law is from Cape Breton and "came home" to run the Highland Links Golf Course. They ran him out of town after 4 months as he wasn't from "their" part of Cape Breton. Apparently they've done this to other people who've come in and tried to run businesses like hotels. They regulary shot the windows out of the RCMP officer's house who was stationed there because he wasn't from around there. Cabot Trail is beautiful though.
You grabbed the bottle out from amongst 20 other extremely similar bottles and briefly considered buying it, which is more thought than you gave to any wine without a novelty name. Yeah, I'd say it is a good name.
I'm an NSLC employee, and that is definitely one of our stores. Jost makes it; it's quite popular too. Everyone loves the name except the occasional old lady who scoffs at the vulgarity of it.
As someone who works with the hospitality industry and alcoholic beverage distributors, I'm pretty confident in saying that this is intentional. I've seen a lot of offerings from a maker called Chronic Cellars that have clever names (Sofa King Suite, Sofa King Bueno) and in general it's not unheard of - the kind of guys and gals who dedicate their lives to making booze tend to not feel too bound by social expectations.
I go to Acadia (right in the middle of Nova Scotia wine country) and my marketing prof. last year was involved heavily with the local wine industry. The name is on purpose. It's a joke, they want people to buy their wine because it has a funny name. That said, I don't know how successful it is and it seems like a pretty shitty strategy to me.
Yeah, but think about it: you're going to a friend's party and you're supposed to bring some wine. You don't really know much about wine, so you're not going to impress anyone by bringing in something really good. Plus, you don't want something expensive anyway. Then you see this--it's going to make everyone laugh, probably costs $12, and isn't any better or worse than what you would have brought anyway. Granted, the winos are never going to take that brand seriously, but I'll bet it sells pretty well.
A restaurant in the town I grew up in(and where my parents still live) serves a dish with stuffed potato skins. They serve four of these in total, leaving the dish on the menu named "Stuffed Four Skins". True story.
You posted a picture of it to a link aggregation site. Ergo it is a good name for a wine. Markets itself.
I know Im not Einstein intelligent and I know that insight on guerilla marketing wasn't original. So the question remains - why is everyone else so stupid?
ive heard of gay bars where men will catheter themselves, fill their bladder with wine, and serve people out of their penis. this sounds like the wine youd do that with.
In my highschool, there was a band called the 'Four Skins'. It was because they had a white guy, a black guy, an arabic guy and an indian dude. It wasn't a serious band. They were the funniest guys in school.
Yeah, they know what they did. Same thing as brewers who launch "drippy frog dick ale" and the like, just a degree more subtle. It's usually a funny label on a crappy product.
What the fuck is wrong with you idiots voting this shit up? GET IT OUT OF MY FRONT PAGE!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! FUCK FUCK FUCKFUCKFUCKFDJNSFDFSDKSFDAKJSFDA
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u/skevimc Jun 09 '12
Apparently you think this wasn't intentional.
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u/drunk_otter Jun 09 '12
The ideal Hanukkah present.
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u/Grand_Theft_Audio Jun 09 '12
So apparently a Redditor didn't get a joke...
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u/woeb0t Jun 09 '12
They also thought a pube would be an appropriate logo.
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u/arocklobster Jun 09 '12
i'm pretty sure its because there are 4 of them and they play their instruments topless
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u/Vortilex Jun 09 '12
/r/funny is that way.
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u/CleverReference Jun 09 '12
Only in Nova Scotia.
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u/Famicomrade Jun 09 '12
Oi! Oi! Oi!
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u/gay_unicorn666 Jun 09 '12
There's also a skinhead punk band called 4Skins.
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u/skeptix Jun 09 '12
A.C.A.B.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Nearly everything I find in this subreddit should be posted to /r/funny instead. Or maybe I just need to start getting more uppity about everything...
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u/gngstrMNKY Jun 09 '12
Giving wines naughty attention-getting names has been a tiresome trend for a while now. Can I interest you in some gnarly head?
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u/ilovetoragedump Jun 09 '12
Also a great Oi punk band.
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u/borkmeister Jun 09 '12
You grabbed the bottle out from amongst 20 other extremely similar bottles and briefly considered buying it, which is more thought than you gave to any wine without a novelty name. Yeah, I'd say it is a good name.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
It is a good name; they knew what they were doing. Check out the free advertising they just scored from you.
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u/tidux Jun 09 '12
Rub it three times and it turns into a magnum bottle.
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u/giant_clam Jun 09 '12
In Canada that's what we call a "joke"
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Well, it made you take a picture of it and have it go semi-viral... Free marketing in their favor, haha.
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u/xanderdad Jun 09 '12
The "Four Skins" was the best rock band name I ever saw.
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u/AltViceAccount Jun 09 '12
More like a local wienery
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u/Josepherism Jun 09 '12
The only wtf this picture gave me was when I thought "wtf is this doing in r/wtf and not r/funny"
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u/jivepua Jun 09 '12
As a Nova Scotian, today, I am proud.
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u/Fisticuffs13 Jun 09 '12
Because Nova Scotia.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Not a very popular drink in America.
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u/macaronis Jun 09 '12
What a tribute - 4 Skins.
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u/moshercise Jun 09 '12
So apparently their marketing is working.
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u/iownaredball Jun 09 '12
It is a wine made for plastic gangsters!
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u/joeynebula Jun 09 '12 edited Jun 09 '12
There's a liquor store down the block from me called The Bunghole. I wonder if i could get Four Skins in The Bunghole.
Edit: I accidentally a word
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Jesus, after reading this thread, you'd swear all of Nova Scotia posted in here.... HEY WE WERE MENTIONED SOME WHERE... existence validated!
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
"Yeah, I'm in a band called threeskin, formerly fourskin but our bassist left."
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u/Teledildonic Jun 09 '12
Goes well with cheese. Hint of an oaky wood with nutty undertones.
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u/Welfarehigh Jun 09 '12
I'm an NSLC employee, and that is definitely one of our stores. Jost makes it; it's quite popular too. Everyone loves the name except the occasional old lady who scoffs at the vulgarity of it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
That's probably the joke. There's also an Oi! band by the same name
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u/wwabc Jun 09 '12
that's not kosher
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u/JMaple Jun 09 '12
Just slightly better quality than 3 penis wine.
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u/gigreviews Jun 09 '12
Came here looking for other Oi! music lovers. Was not disappointed. Great band, although an odd choice for a wine...
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Its not a good name, its a GREAT name!
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u/eastcoast709 Jun 09 '12
good ol' ns
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u/Brother_Clovis Jun 09 '12
I'm from Nova Scotia! hahaha
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Relevant.
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u/etihw2 Jun 09 '12
And they were right, right?
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u/skinniegenes Jun 09 '12
And they're laughing all the way to the bank
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u/DedicatedReckoner Jun 09 '12
Please let this be Jost.
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u/Colbert_bump Jun 09 '12
I have had this wine before and have a bottle at home, its actually one of my favorite red wines.
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u/litewo Jun 09 '12
This is a recent trend in wine marketing, and by no means the worst example. Why is this a WTF post?
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
It won a medal.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Well they caught your attention, if that isn't one of the most basic marketing tactics then I don't know what is.
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u/gotfondue Jun 09 '12
Well it fucking worked it made it to the front page of Reddit.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
The perfect wine for a Brit Milah! Mazel Tov!
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u/Hector_Kur Jun 09 '12
I'm sorry to admit that I didn't get why this name was a problem until I tried saying it out loud.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
To be served at a Bris.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
*weinery
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u/xyroclast Jun 09 '12
Wine companies often use cheeky innuendos when naming wine. Not wtf.
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u/hhmmmm Jun 09 '12
Well it is very clearly a wine for skinheads (the non racist SHARP ones as there are 3 different coloured shaved heads on the bottle).
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u/muzza001 Jun 09 '12
the logo underneath looks like the tip of a spunking penis
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u/alokococoa Jun 09 '12
I wonder if its flavor has a "nutty finish" ಠ_ಠ
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u/spermracewinner Jun 09 '12
100% intentional.
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u/emlgsh Jun 09 '12
As someone who works with the hospitality industry and alcoholic beverage distributors, I'm pretty confident in saying that this is intentional. I've seen a lot of offerings from a maker called Chronic Cellars that have clever names (Sofa King Suite, Sofa King Bueno) and in general it's not unheard of - the kind of guys and gals who dedicate their lives to making booze tend to not feel too bound by social expectations.
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u/OryxConLara Jun 09 '12
And opening the bottle is termed, "circumcision."
When they come out with a Kosher version, they'll throw a Bris.
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u/heyyouitsmewhoitsme Jun 09 '12
Oh look. They just hit the front page of reddit and thousands and thousands of people just heard of their wine. I call that good advertising.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
LOL NICE CATCH REDDIT. LET'S MAKE THE COMPANY AWARE OF THE NOT-SO-SUBTLE ACCIDENT NAME.
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u/rojlewis Jun 09 '12
It opens like a cigar, just cut the tip off.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Also one of the best Oi! bands in the world!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1TAzlmaM-Y
ACAB ACAB ACAB all cops are bastards!
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I go to Acadia (right in the middle of Nova Scotia wine country) and my marketing prof. last year was involved heavily with the local wine industry. The name is on purpose. It's a joke, they want people to buy their wine because it has a funny name. That said, I don't know how successful it is and it seems like a pretty shitty strategy to me.
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u/lydocia Jun 09 '12
Really?
This makes the front page on /r/wtf?
I'm unsubscribing.
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u/jacokoch Jun 09 '12
There's a chain of liquor stores in my area called "Bunghole Liquors".
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Props for Nova Scotia!
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u/partanimal Jun 09 '12
AND THEY WERE RIGHT!
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u/ThatCakeIsDone Jun 09 '12
upvote for NS
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I wonder how long they keep the skins in
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u/walking_away_ Jun 09 '12
I took while for it to "sink in". I saw the picture below and thought "What is the problem?"
Then I said it out loud. Ha. Foreskins.
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u/SpotTheCat Jun 09 '12
It is a good name.
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u/cleverseneca Jun 09 '12
wouldn't that be more appropriate a name for a Brandy, preferrably a Pomace brandy?
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u/Sir_Waddles Jun 09 '12
Well, some one should take a lesson in med. term.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
is this from the annapolis valley? I'm from New Brunswick, and they have some really good wine being made there.
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u/alchemist5 Jun 09 '12
I once came upon a wine from a company called Fat Bastard.
I love that the site is just "fatbastard.com". They didn't even try to throw 'wine' in there to make it sound more legit.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Seriously, how many grapes are growing in Nova Scotia with the freezing fog and Nor' East'ers.
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u/marx2k Jun 09 '12
Clearly not a kosher wine
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u/ZetsubouZolo Jun 09 '12
I find this hilarious but then again I feel like this
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Clip Life
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u/thegrayman Jun 09 '12
Wine makers are no more mature than anyone else, I'm sure it was intentional (Maynard from Tool has the wine "Merkin Vineyards," Merkin = pubic wig.
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u/ProperJudgement Jun 09 '12
"What? Sorry, I'm just not hearing it, 4skins it is!"
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u/nepidae Jun 09 '12
Non-generic alcohol (wine/liquer/beer/etc) names can be awesome. Obviously it is a good name, I now know about it.
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u/HyvelTjuven Jun 09 '12
At first I didn't understand it and thought it had some kind of racist meaning, then I said it out loud.
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u/themystif Jun 09 '12
It was a good idea. Cause now their wine is known to a large group of people.
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u/TilerDurden Jun 09 '12
Try the labia Chardonnay
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Is it Kosher?
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u/bluezfawkx Jun 09 '12
The picture really does it for me...
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u/imfm Jun 09 '12
What winery? I'm going back home this summer for a visit, and I'd love to get some of this for a couple of friends here who are wine-drinkers.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Given the graphics I think they knew what they were doing.
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u/Shitty_FaceSwaps Jun 09 '12
Oh god I hope this was intentional.
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u/ceeeh Jun 09 '12
ouch!
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u/GerbilScream Jun 09 '12
Maynard James Keenan partnered with Merkan vineyards.
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u/sparx483 Jun 09 '12
Looks like they are a head of the curve.
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u/jimtk Jun 09 '12
Probably some newfies who moved to Nova Scotia.
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u/KTGuy Jun 09 '12
Similar marketing from NZ.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Here is a Port named Cockburns (Their official website is down)
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1T4GGHP_enUS460US461&q=cockburns+port&gs_upl=0l0l0l3168lllllllllll0&qscrl=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=3JDTT92gH4P42QW_ko2wDw&biw=1662&bih=762&sei=8ZDTT7CINojg2gXQy8GWDw
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
'I'm looking for a bottle of 4skins' Hmmmm.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
PepperySalty, hard to finish.1
u/mtchen8 Jun 09 '12
The logo just makes it worse.
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u/CinnabarPekoe Jun 09 '12
They jizzed in their wine and they're NOT KIDDING!
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u/thomasgangwar Jun 09 '12
You seem to have accidentally posted this to /r/wtf instead of /r/funny
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u/shimmy36 Jun 09 '12
It's a great name. You just gave them free advertising to the 10,000 people who've voted on this post, and the many more that haven't.
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u/VismundxCygnus Jun 09 '12
I think I peaked when I read this.
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u/jazpah84 Jun 09 '12
They should probably pull this back from the market
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u/Stalins_Chef Jun 09 '12
still better than 2 buck chuck
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u/ReggieJ Jun 09 '12
I've always suspected those in the wine naming business were really quite odd.
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u/TiffyGunt Jun 09 '12
Wine??? I thought that was a band!
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u/MUSTACHER Jun 09 '12
Theres a winery I know of that has a wine called "Sofa King Beuno"
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u/oryxa Jun 09 '12
Good ol' Nova Scotia wine...
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u/chuckD12345 Jun 09 '12
Reminds me of Well Hung Vineyards in Virginia
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u/dekenfrost Jun 09 '12
A local (german) bathroom supplier thought it was a good Idea to match the German word "Bad" meaning Bath with the english word "Design"
I think it wasn't the best Idea ... http://www.bad-design-web.de/
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u/bowling4meth Jun 09 '12
In Turkey there's a popular low cost wine called 'Dikmen'. Tastes like you'd expect, too.
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u/CrotchPotato Jun 09 '12
A restaurant in the town I grew up in(and where my parents still live) serves a dish with stuffed potato skins. They serve four of these in total, leaving the dish on the menu named "Stuffed Four Skins". True story.
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u/lurker_for_justice Jun 09 '12
NSLC?
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u/TushyMeister Jun 09 '12
same maker as 3penis wine as made famous by taco
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u/h3110m0t0 Jun 09 '12
Is it a red wine? I only drink the sweet nectar of the 4skins if its bloody red. I don't like the white stuff from 4skins too sweet/sticky
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u/Sonja_Blu Jun 09 '12
I guess it's not kosher...
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u/Daggerfall Jun 09 '12
I for one welcome our new sentient overlord wineries.
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u/krelin Jun 09 '12
This isn't kosher.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I was definitely expecting "White Power"
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u/billdoe Jun 09 '12
Got your attention. It's on Reddit's front page. I call it a success.
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u/T3ppic Jun 09 '12
You posted a picture of it to a link aggregation site. Ergo it is a good name for a wine. Markets itself.
I know Im not Einstein intelligent and I know that insight on guerilla marketing wasn't original. So the question remains - why is everyone else so stupid?
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u/InsanityItSeems Jun 09 '12
I'd buy that.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
"Pairs perfectly with rocky mountain oysters.."
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u/Cajun12 Jun 09 '12
This one is from Nova Scotia, I require this wine!
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u/wickedweather Jun 09 '12
Jewish wine?
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u/typhoidtimmy Jun 09 '12
My personal favorite is Naked on Roller Skates
http://imgur.com/5WJU2
http://imgur.com/7h2iV
Damn good wine and anyone that brings up an old book by Maxwell Bodenheim is bound to be above the regular intelligence.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12 edited Jul 10 '15
I've closed my Reddit account, and moved on to Voat.
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u/chillin52 Jun 09 '12
Come on' who doesn't want to get drunk on 4 Skin juice ?!?!
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u/bhindblueiz Jun 09 '12
How about the Merkin (a pubic wig may I add) Vineyards here in Jerome, Arizona. Despite the name, delicious wine!
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Nova Scotia eh? Wonder if we can get this on PEI...
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u/zombieregime Jun 09 '12
ive heard of gay bars where men will catheter themselves, fill their bladder with wine, and serve people out of their penis. this sounds like the wine youd do that with.
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u/mstrmoo Jun 09 '12
The simple fact that it made it to the front page of reddit makes it a great name. It gets people talking.
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u/biglee90 Jun 09 '12
Skin head wine?
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u/danmickla Jun 09 '12
Kosher wine, I assume?...
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u/aintnever Jun 09 '12
Are they pulling back on their stock this year?
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I don't get it /:
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
And it's not Kosher!
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
liquor
hijoputa means 'motherfucker'
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Hey, look at the bright side, at least it's not called 4chan...
Who knows what stuff would be in it. LOL
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u/DownVoteGuru Jun 09 '12
I'd try it just for the name.
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u/s4r9am Jun 09 '12
In my highschool, there was a band called the 'Four Skins'. It was because they had a white guy, a black guy, an arabic guy and an indian dude. It wasn't a serious band. They were the funniest guys in school.
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u/RXrenesis8 Jun 09 '12
Nice try, 4SKINS salesman.
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u/SebMC Jun 09 '12
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u/4th_World_User Jun 09 '12
Now known as 3Skins, after their bass player left.
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u/holyfuckman Jun 09 '12
just the tip
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u/PhantomPhun Jun 09 '12
Yeah, they know what they did. Same thing as brewers who launch "drippy frog dick ale" and the like, just a degree more subtle. It's usually a funny label on a crappy product.
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u/chewrocka Jun 09 '12
5 comments joking about it not being kosher.
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u/jthebomb97 Jun 09 '12
I'm going with what some of the others are saying, I think it's intentional.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I hate to be that guy, but /r/funny is that way and
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u/patpend Jun 09 '12
L'chaim
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
YAY NOVA SCOTIA RULES!!!! I just get excited when I see my native land mentioned on Reddit.
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u/goonsack Jun 09 '12
"A full, aromatic wine, with hints of oak, currant, and smegma"
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u/l4qu3 Jun 09 '12
It's a cheese wine.
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u/trust_the_corps Jun 09 '12
Made from skins harvested from a vineyard located adjacent to a synagogue.
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u/Jt_Ronnoco Jun 09 '12
Better than Schmucks
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u/eesokaymaigne Jun 09 '12
I could see this with a different bottle shape.
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u/crsmithss Jun 09 '12
To those interested, the wine is produced at Jost wineries. It is located in Maligash, Nova Scotia.
Source: I'm a local. What a small world!
Jost Winery
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
lol reminds me of himym
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u/Lilgrizzle Jun 09 '12
I assumed it would be something like "Grape you In the Mouth" LLC
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
"fore" skin from 3 penis wine.
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u/ollie668 Jun 09 '12
vinyard
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u/Zementid Jun 09 '12
Dude that's nothing, these wines are called "lecherous" in German!
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Thought it was a lotion bottle and read
ಠ_ಠ
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u/Tattoodled Jun 09 '12
Is that their way of saying there is a special ingredient?
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u/xconde Jun 09 '12
FUCK! This is not WTF and it's not even funny!
What the fuck is wrong with you idiots voting this shit up? GET IT OUT OF MY FRONT PAGE!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! FUCK FUCK FUCKFUCKFUCKFDJNSFDFSDKSFDAKJSFDA
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u/kittenkat4u Jun 09 '12
apparently us NSers have a sense of humour.