Would you like to see some porn with your wine?

November 6th, 2010: Today was an internal battle between Napa Valley, California and Tarija, Bolivia...two countries wine producing regions power houses. In the upper northwest corner stands California and in the south corner sits Bolivia. Going to a variety of wineries today from the big guns to the little ones, it ended up that not much resembled or tasted like Napa Valley.

Today, I mostly saw struggling vines resembling weeds growing along the countryside to some outstanding wine selling strategies looking more like legal office porn for men used to sell wine. Latin America seems set that a woman in skimpy clothing will increase sales of anything from crayons to bread. After seeing the advertisements for some wine at a winery, the strategy almost...worked. I found myself tempted to purchase multiple bottles to see how many of them were necessary for my personal set of wine goggles to form in order to make a one of the local women or...donkeys to somewhat resemble one the woman on the advertisement.

Though after accessing the risk, I might have ended up in the hospital from alcohol poisoning to achieve this…so I decided to do nothing but take the free stuff for sampling. The samples itself on my tour had me drunk by 11:30am…it must have been the altitude I thought as I headed to bed for an extended siesta lasting about…4 hours.

I know that beer companies use this porn strategy to increase sales with women in little or no clothing - depending on what country you are from…but wine companies? I thought a long time ago drinking wine was for the sophisticated. Not here it seems…not here.