Wine Ice Cream from mercers dairy.com, including mulled wine

Here's something to take to a Xmas party. Wine ice cream. All over the USA. You can order online.

When will it come to Europe? I'll look for a recipe to make your own.A good way to use up leftover wine. Tip it over dry cake or ice cream.

Ice Cream T-Shirts
I also like the t-shirts. But you have to order ice cream to qualify for being able to buy a t-shirt. I can't order because I am not in the USA. Does anybody want to send me a tee-shirt!

Wishlists
Maybe they should start a wishlist for tee-shirts.  Every company which sells retail or through websites should have wish lists as well as wedding lists. That would help enormously when buying Xmas and birthday gifts. Have a monthly or annual giveaway to keep people coming back.

I watched an amusing video of people trying out various flavours. Chocolate. Merlot. Strawberry sparkle.

Wine Ice Cream Flavours from Mercer's (alphabetically):
Cherry Merlot
Chocolate Cabernet
Peach White Zinfandel
Port
Red Raspberry Chardonnay
Riesling
Spice (mulled wine)

The HQ seems to be in New York but they are all over north america with one spot in the north of south america.

I looked at the link wondering if I would find the tee shirts but could find only ordering ice cream.
http://www.mercersdairy.com/#!shop-online/c1prr

I wonder how wine ice cream would suit hot Singapore. In England in November it's so chilly that our thoughts are on mulled wine more than wine ice cream. Hot toddy and mulled wine.


If you are driving or working and don't want to go anywhere near alcohol or caffeine (my doctor told me not to drink coffee after lunch time, you can make a punch bowl with a non-alcoholic punch or one which looks like red sangria and keep diluting it.

I checked Wikipedia and was amazed to discover several entries on wine ice cream.

Wine ice cream, zabaglione, made with wine and egg yolks, is popular in Argentina.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabaione

Note that the Italian spelling is different, so that is not necessarily a typo, or I hope a not a spell checker fairy's change.


Angela Lansbury Travel writer and photographer.

Mescal/Mezcal - Mexican drink with agave worm - weird Xmas present?

Who would want to drink wine with worms in it? The Chinese and the Mexicans.

Chinese
In a Chinese store in Chinatown in Singapore I saw giant bottles of alcohol contained pickled worms. Yuk. It quite put me off purchasing a c h e o n g sam. (Spell check wants to select the similar and more usual word, it thinks, chewing.) Chewing on a worm?

Mexican Mescal
A member of my family is taking an exam organised by WSET for wines and spirits. Revision for the theory and tasting entailed buying and tasting small quantities of various sprits including Mexican Mescal. Even the tiny size contains a tiny worm.

We had a debate in which I was assured, "It is not a real worm. Not the sort that live underground. It's the l a r v a e of a moth."

I was not reassured. As far as I'm concerned, if it looks like a worm (to parody the famous saying about a duck from Hitchhiker's Guide ..) it is a worm.

After the tasting the worm was disposed of.

So I do not have a photo. Just as well. My more squeamish readers might be put off. However, if you want to see or buy Mescal, look for it in Mexico or from a website such as Drinksupermarket.co.uk

In London before Xmas the big stores in Central London such as Harrods and Selfridges and Fortnum & Mason often stock novelty foods as gifts, sometimes in sets of two or three, sometimes as individual items, such as chocolate covered this and that. If you want to make up a set of foods or drinks for a friend who likes that sort of thing, or for amusement, or for friends from China or Mexico who might be familiar with these drinks and regard them not as a novelty but as a treat, here is an idea for your Xmas list.

Not all Mezcal contains the worm. So be sure to order it with, or, if you prefer, without.

If you like it, go to Mexico during the recently introduced festival in July.
 "Para todo mal, mezcal, y para todo bien, también." ("For every ill, Mezcal, and for every good as well.").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezcal

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, speaker and author.