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It's Wednesday December the 21 around 12:10AM and

Vancouver Wine Scandal

During a very brief sojurn out of the sweat shop to get a few ounces of Christmas (not Holiday damn it) cheer and we learned of this Scrouge-like situation over at our new nemesis, Steamworks. Our wine/photography/fun consultant here at The Vancouverite, purchased a bottle of Dirty Laundry Pinot Noir at the Steamworks in West Van. No problem there - the winery, previously Scherzinger Vineyards was a real treat when we visited and winemaker Ron Watkins was quite the character.

And no, I don't intend to let Dirty Laundry off the hook for the longest website build in history, er, 2005. Honestly dudes, you told us back in May that the wine and site would be launching in June '05. It's December now! Somebody might need a lump of coal in thier sock for this, even as we see the new identity stacking up kudos in a bunch of design annuals around the continent. But I digress.

But here's the real scandal: Steamworks is selling this $22.90 bottle (that price is according to emails confirmed with the winemaker himself this week.) for $40.53! Jon Stewart looks into camera and says, "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?" That's right, a nice, tidy, $17.60 wine scandal people. No offense to Dirty Laundry, the wine is tasty, but that is ridiculous. No wonder they call it the "The Wine Thief" for thier downtown wine store location. In West Vancouver, they just call it The Liquor Store.

This calls for a full blown explaination. Stay tuned.

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Comments

Posted by: whiskers

December 21, 2005 09:20 AM

blow this mother wide open - contact the hardline investigative reporters at NSNews. do i hear "pinotgate"?

Posted by: Jackson Murphy

December 21, 2005 09:30 AM

PinotGate.

Love this Whiskers! We'll be spying on the downtown store today. mwhahahahahaahaha.

Posted by: Rod Templeton

December 28, 2005 12:49 PM

And of course, the longest website build in Vancouver history has to go to Com-West Communications (www.com-west.com)
Taken directly from their website:

Watch Here For
COM-WEST RADIO'S New Home Page

(really, guys, who the hell calls it a home page anymore?)

Major upgrading of this website is underway.
Last modified August 15th, 2002

(Jeez, I think the guy doing the redesign died - three and a half years??)