“I'm telling you, this is the perfect pick. It's the most magnificent. It's like a unicorn with roller skates on. … It's like it's fancy to her. This is her fancy we're having wine.”
SOMM TV wine & food · Food & Beverage · October 2026
Context
His co-host had spotted a jug of Gallo Classic Burgundy on the table in Misery, served at a special dinner. He says the cheap jug is perfectly cast because it's the villain's idea of a fancy occasion.
Transcript
ying. The next wine in this movie is the yang. So the yang. So great.
…when I say classic burgundy because as we know, it's not burgundy, but it is the jug. And she pours it and he pours it. And she goes to get candles and all this whole thing. Like it is front and center, labeled with a camera, absolutely casting. What do you think? Gallo classic burgundy, 1.5 liter.
I think everyone in America. Okay, so Trump is doing all these things with Reed. He wants to give everybody money and all these things. You know, here's 500 bucks or 5,000 bucks. And it's all this different stuff a week that you hear. He should give every person in America one of these bottles of wine. A 1.5 liter Gallo Classic Burgundy. I'm telling you, this is the perfect pick. It's the most magnificent. It's like a unicorn with roller skates on. I am so happy about this pick. It's like it's fancy to her. This is her fancy we're having wine. And I wish I honestly, what we need to do, by the way, for a future episode is we have to drink every one of the wines we mention. And we may just have to redo misery because I want to drink this. I don't know where we're going to find an old bottle of it, but I don't know. I don't know either.
But I will like, I love the fact that Gallo made classic burgundy and hardy burgundy. If you remember hardy burgundy, that's a bigger, sweeter version. But I want to point out to the listeners that are studying for their Master Sommeliers or Advanced Somaliers exam that are using this as a treat on…
specific. I mean, that's actually like amazing that it has these grapes. It's like a, it's like a Rhone blend burgundy. Exactly. Exactly.
And when they pour it in the movie, like you can tell there's no part of it that's made from Pinot Noir at all. It's so dark red and just like heavy and like opaque. But it's absolutely center. It plays the second pivotal role. It's not the celebration at the opening act. It is in this kind of…
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