Most Pretentious Wine Name

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There are rude wine names, pretentious wine names, silly wine names…

Some that are humourous like Stu Pedasso Cellars in Sonoma sells Sonoma Beach Zin (try saying it to yourself) are just funny, as is Goats Do Roam from South Africa, and just about anything from Bonny Doon.

Opus One is on the pretentiously side but also classy and I have no problem with it. Ditto for Dominus.

What do you think are the most pretentious? I am going to nominate a BC winery called Blasted Church which markets a rather pedestrian cabernet as ‘Nectar of the Gods’.

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“If You See Kay” by Jason Woodbridge ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Lacryma Christi del Vesuvio is a pretty bold claim.

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cat pee on a gooseberry bush

the most pee-tentious wine name

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Sine Qua Non. I can easily live my life without it.

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Baby Jesus

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The Prisoner
No Girls

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Cono sur

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No Girls is an odd one, but The Prisoner only means one thing to me - Patrick McGoohan capering about a Welsh town after large pulsing balloons! (No offence intended to any Goya fans).

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Sorry to be so dense. Sonoma Beach Zin?

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Try leaving out the “zin” part and stressing the first syllable in Sonoma.

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So, no mo…

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Vineyard, not brand. Naylor Dry Hole

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Son of a beach. Now I get it.

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I remember in the mid '70s visiting my sister in Barcelona and bringing some top rated Napa Chardonnay to share. She and her friends were drinking Cordoniu NPU. (Non Plus Ultra for the Latin challenged)
It was much more appropriate for the climate and food, not pretentious at all, and not expensive then or now.

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Well Hung Vineyard near here has an Under the Table Red…

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Free Unsolicited Condescending Advice by Victor Hong.

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Negly: La Porte du Ciel

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Les Halos de Jupiter: Adrastée

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Extradimensional Wine Co. Yeah!