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The return of the wine bottle workout

Who needs horror movies when there’s always a wine bottle workout lurking in the shadows?

Yes, we have to deal with consolidation, too high prices, premiumization and all the rest that is wreaking havoc with wine. But that may not be the worst scourge facing us.

It may well be the return of the wine bottle workout.

In other words, wine has a horror movie all of its own making, perhaps even more terrifying than “M3gan.”

The WC thought he had put a stake through this monster almost six years ago, but apparently not. So find your crosses, load up on garlic, stock up on silver buckshot, and sharpen those stakes again. Even worse: I can’t tell if this is a joke or not; it is an ingenious use of a Carlo Rossi bottle, yes?

Video courtesy of Elle, via YouTube

 

The wine bottle workout: We must stop this scourge now

wine bottle workloutHas wine become so debased that some of us use bottles to exercise with?

The Wine Curmudgeon, constantly on alert to protect us from all of the foolishness that permeates wine, has uncovered yet another plot to ruin what we love – the wine bottle workout.

Check YouTube, and there are dozens of videos – perhaps hundreds – detailing the wine bottle workout, where people exercise with wine bottles in place of weights. It even reached the mainstream, with this bizarre clip from NBC’s Today Show featuring someone who is supposed to be a celebrity trainer using wine bottles in a workout.

Of course, as anyone with an ounce of sanity knows, wine bottles are not supposed to be used to work out. They are supposed to be used so we have wine to drink. Has the republic fallen so far that I need to remind us of this?

Fortunately, Nick Manske has put this all into perspective, with the video below – The wine opener exercise instructor: “Get off that couch and open those bottles of wine, you lazy bums!”