Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 20, 2021

But it’s gotta sit there for a few years before being served.

That’s about the same amount of time I let wine age

We tend to avoid restaurants where, if you ask about what kinds of wine there are, they tell you “Oh, honey, we have ALL THREE KINDS!”

We were in Rome and we go to the restaurant. The waiter asks which wine we prefer and one of us takes a bottle of that from his vineyard out of his bag and says: “No, we have ours”.

I’ve never been so ashamed.

Packaging costs more than the wine. Gasoline would cost $20 more per can if we bought it in 5 gallon cans. All of the restaurants drop their wine and beer bottles in the recycler bin so they don’t have to pay for trash hauling. They haul off 2-3 40 cu yard recycle bins a week.

Couldn’t they at least get Lucille Ball?

What’s the problem, fella just took a bath last Saturday…

Forgot “Ye”

Finest wine in all of Idaho. Would you like to sniff the cap?

Reminds me of the ignorance of the people in not knowing what Soylent Green really was.

T’is said one should not look too closely into the lives of one’s heroes. Same philosophy also applies to most other things we like.

Bob thought that he had seen the worst, but then the sausage-making truck rolled up.

I read where some wines are shipped over in huge bladders and are bottled once they get to the States.

Looks sketchy to me, a good vin ordinaire should be aged at least sixty days in a steel barrel.

I saw a big semi tanker truck that said “COFFEE” on it. It was at the fair grounds when they doing the vaccinations there. When I worked at a candy factory I was surprised when a semi tanker pulled up and started pumping in liquid chocolate.

“Ah, Mr. Miller…?”

“Yes, Joan?”

“Line Two: says he’s a lawyer for a Mrs. Lucy Ricardo…”

I wonder where they stomp the whiskey fruit? I would pay a lot for a chance to smash some bourbon berries.

Fun Fact … all wines are full of Bug Juice. Yup. The grape’s scent attract flies, spiders come to eat the flies and the vintner squeezes grapes and all, together. Yum!

If you’re bound to drink the stuff, get a clear (white) wine. That way you can see if any bug’s bodies are still there.

And inside at a table is some “self-appointed” sommelier extolling the features of the fine wine he and his friends are enjoying

but the shards keep turning up in his vino.

It has taken me just a little under two years reading 15-16 comics per day (a half month), but I have binge read every Non Sequitur strip starting on February 16, 1992. Thanks Wiley.

I hope he washed his feet first. Or is that part of the “unique” flavor?

“We will sell no wine until you buy it!”

This reminds me of Heidelberg Tun. built in 1751 by Prince Elector Karl Theodor to house the wine paid as taxes by the wine growers (you can bet it did not get the finest wine) It stands seven meters high, is eight and a half meters wide, holds 220,000 liters (58,124 gallons) of wine. It had a pipe system to serve it, but the pipes were lead.

Things you cannot unsee.

It was ever thus.

Don’t forget Mateus. . . .

I remember asking a friend how the wine was over dinner some years ago. He said, “Well, April was good month.”

Squashed all his beliefs.

Expensive wine at a fancy restaurant. Who will foot the bill?

Next up. Where we source our Italian sausage!

Does anyone really stomp grapes to make wine?

We haven’t gone to a restaurant in many years because wife has seen quite a few restaurant kitchens-in some really fancy, expensive restaurants that were filthy.

This comic reminds me of the ol’ 60 Minutes show that featured those “bottled water” companies. The episode went through several of them on how they bottled their product with special this ‘n that. Then, at the end I guess as a joke, they showed a company that just filled their bottles with “tap” water !I have to laugh out loud when I go shopping at the local store for whatever, and when I pass those aisles with said bottled water, some in those fancy bottles @ 1.98 or higher, gotta wonder if people don’t realize that they’re paying for that bottle’s creation ?

Excellent choice, sir. Shall I leave the box?

I don’t get it. It’s saying that the customers don’t know the difference between wine and grape juice?

Up till I was 18 I thought all wine tasted just like the Manischewitz we’d have at Passover. NOT !! Cheap red jug wine at a party in Berkeley put a stop to THAT notion !!

Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made. (attributed to Bismarck)

Doesn’t it have to ferment first?

Sorry Bob, once the cork comes out, it don’t go back in.

Another recycled comic from the 1990s! Same joke, almost the same drawing