Originally published on November 2, 2009.
This is a picture of a freshly delivered case of wine (and my foot, to the left.)
As you can see, cases often arrive plastered with stickers: shipping instructions, account names and numbers, delivery instructions for the delivery trucks, picking instructions for the warehouse.
This one came in a month or so ago and I noticed the warehouse sticker referred to both an “oddball aisle” and an “oddball pallet.” It made me laugh because it’s a pretty good description of many of the wines on my shelf. I don’t remember exactly what was in this case – maybe a dry Furmint? Another Gelber Muskateller? Or maybe a Mondeuse? So many options! After spotting this particular sticker, I started to notice loads of my cases are designated with some sort of “oddball” sticker.
Perhaps I’ll need to add this designation to my buying grid…only X% of wines in the shop can be from an oddball palate.
Nah. Every wine shop needs a little (or in my case, a lot) of oddball. It makes the world go round.