ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 18th April 2024

Episode Date: April 17, 2024

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Hayley's Dad was poppin' Bottles!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I was visiting my parents over the last weekend and we enjoy a drink, the Sprouts. It's in the blood, isn't it? It's in the blood. Yep. It run thicker through our veins. We had some lovely like drinks out and then we were like well we'll go home

we'll have a drink we made some Ugo Spritz you went to the wineries? went to winery and picked up some wines some lovely wines from Martinborough

what winery did you go to down there? Margrain which is where it sells my favourite Chenin Blanc which me and friend of the show

Toddy are hosting a Chenin Blanc night but it's an exclusive invite we're Toddy, are hosting a Chenin Blanc night, but it's an exclusive invite. We haven't been invited. We're not sure if you guys are on the list yet. I don't know what a Chenin Blanc is. Yeah, exactly. Is it like a Chardonnay? It's like, it's a very old wine.

Like it's an old, traditional wine. Similar to a Savion Blanc, but maybe like sweeter and sort of fresher. Oh, you got me. It's sweeter because. You will, it's like an unfizzy Prosecco. I'm telling you. The Chardon Blanc grape is a white grape variety from the

L'Orvallée of France. It's high acidity means it can be used to make variety. Jesus, he's a couple. From sparkling wines to well-balanced dessert wines. See, I love a sweet dessert wine.

So I got a sticky Shannon. I got a sticky Shannon, an old Shannon, and a new Shannon. That's my contribution to Shannon night. Right. Invite spending. Anyway, we got home and we started watching The Warriors. We were watching The Warriors. Up the wires.

Bloody great game over the weekend. I loved it with my dad. It looked like it was all done. It looked like it was over and they choked and then they pulled it back for a draw and then they went to golden time

and they kept them scoreless and it ended in a draw which was a great outcome. It was great but we said, oh, well, let's crack a bottle of wine and I said to dad, I feel like I could go red.

Now, I don't often feel like a red but my dad loves a red and I assumed he would have had heaps of red wines around. So he goes into the kitchen, and I hear a cork popping, and I thought, this might be a bit of a nice red. We've got a cork on our hand.

Then I hear my mum enter the room and go, Craig, no! Craig! What, what, what? And I came out, and mum was like, oh, well, better enjoy it. And my dad had accidentally opened a $2,900 bottle of red wine. I thought you were going to say $2,000 bottle of wine.

No. Oh, my God. No, they would never. No, they would never. They would never own that. But it was a $100 bottle of wine. And this was like, we're watching a Warriors game and going to bed. Was it a Pinot Noir?

Because there is the Warriors where you drink Pinot Noir as you watch the Warriors. I can't even. Do you know what? I don't even a pin on why because there is the the warriors where you drink pin on why as you watch the warriors uh i can't even do you know i don't even know it was delicious were they saving it for a special occasion they were saving it because it is uh a wine specifically for it's uh by a company called matariki and my mom was saving saving it to take to Italy where they celebrate with their friends Matariki every year. Oh, because your mum does the hangi, doesn't she? She does a hangi. She's got a multi-kind cooker.

And yeah, my dad's opened it. Well, can you get another one, but just not, it won't be the same year. Yeah, here's the wine. It's $155 a bottle. That's not bad. They can, they can. That's, I don't think I've ever spent any more than,

like, you know know you get a wine It's on special and it's down from $20 To like $16.99 And you're just like that's me The year Indy was born we got given a really nice Bottle of red wine that year And then when August was born we bought A nice bottle of red wine

And they're just in the wine pantry The wine rack Shit that's dangerous mate What about this one? I'm like, that's like now 12 years old. We're saving that for like in 20 years or something. Be careful, though. Because it's probably going to go vinegary.

We, I went to a wedding, and this was the wedding that had the beautiful whiskeys on the bar, and our friend Tess, who opened for us in Christchurch, it was her wedding, and her husband Nick, same thing, a friend had given their parents a bottle of wine the day he was born and said, share this at his wedding. And so here we were

at his wedding and he's nearly 40, if not in his 40s, I think. Crack it open, everyone gets a tiny little bit, pass around these little glasses. It was foul.

I was going to say, like, yeah, was it shit? It was bad because not all wine should be kept. No,

we were told that it should be alright though. You know if you're supposed to, Like yeah Was it shit It was bad Because not all wine Should be kept No And it was just We were told That it should be alright though You know if You know if you're supposed to The wine The winemaker knows But this one

Yeah it tasted like Fermented vinegar And then Did no one like Try it before they passed it out Or they were just like We here now No they thought it was a laugh

They were like It's probably gonna taste like shit And even the friend that was there The day that Nick was born Was like Nah it wasn't expensive And so everyone was like It wasn't expensive No it was like a Corbin's Nick was born was like, no, it wasn't expensive. And so everyone was like, oh.

It wasn't expensive. No, it was like a Corbin's. Oh, wow. It wasn't there, but it was like a cheap wine. Yeah, mass produced. Anyway, so I did enjoy a $155 bottle of wine with my dad while I watched the Wows. And you know what? Life's too bloody short.

My parents' life motto was drink it while it's fizzy. So might as well. Well, no, no, red wine, if it's gone fizzy, it's going to be yuck is drink it while it's fizzy. So might as well. Well no no red wine if it's gone fizzy it's gonna be yuck. Unless it's red.