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Freshly appearing at a local restaurant, BearBoat wines, from Sonoma. Entertaining name, with its /b/’s. And with cute labels, with this as a template:

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Particular instances have captions as well as the graphic.

I’ve done alliteration with /b/ before:

“Beer Bust at Blow Buddies” (link)

BOAR BRISTLE (link)

And then there are other entertaining wine names. An old favorite of mine is Bonny Doon‘s Le Cigare Volant:

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There are sites that collect bizarre and funny wine names, for instance this one, which offers, among other things:

Horse’s Ass, Hey Mambo, Goats do Roam [Côtes du Rhône], Plungerhead, Pinot Evil [See No Evil], Fat Bastard, Toasted Head, Gnarly Head, Arrogant Frog



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