Caption this: Battle of Wine
Writing in today’s WSJ, Melanie Grayce West describes the annual “Rioja rumble” known as the Batalla del Vino, or battle of wine: “After mass, the melee on the hillside begins and red wine is fired from buckets, jugs, water guns, crop sprayers and any other vessel possible—the goal is to drench everyone in sight with red wine.” The town of Haro graciously provides the wine. The photo from the event, held on June 29 this year, begs your captioning–sound off in the comments!
On June 19th, 2009 at 4:50 pm ,Wine Whisperer wrote:
Genetically engineered cattle for the Purple People Eater
On June 19th, 2009 at 8:48 pm ,el jefe wrote:
The Running of the Bobals.
On June 20th, 2009 at 3:15 am ,Food fight. Water fight. Wine fight! « Wine Wine Wine wrote:
[…] Dr Vino explains the rationale behind this red wine melee. <link> […]
On June 20th, 2009 at 1:33 pm ,Maria wrote:
Such mixed emotions. One the one hand; what a waste of good wine (maybe it isn’t so good), on the other; what fun! This photo made my day.
On June 20th, 2009 at 1:37 pm ,Dylan wrote:
This is a stain remover’s cross-promotion dream.
On June 20th, 2009 at 7:13 pm ,Howard G. Goldberg wrote:
Better Red than dead.
On June 21st, 2009 at 7:41 pm ,Sarah wrote:
Did Barney eat some sour grapes?
On June 22nd, 2009 at 3:29 am ,Bertrand wrote:
I wish I’d been there (with a waterproof camera of course)……
They really know how to “faire la fête” and have fun in Spain, great festive way to celebrate wine, we should do the same in France, maybe in Languedoc because the wine is cheaper there (you need to, to spray it in the street). The vignerons’ unions or whatever wine-lobbying organizations could find there a way to make wine fashionable again for the young people.
On June 22nd, 2009 at 8:55 am ,Dr. Vino wrote:
Funny captions here! I’m reminded of The Economist’s headline from a few years ago: “glug, glug, glut.”
And, Bertrand, a nice comparative observation.
On June 22nd, 2009 at 9:52 am ,Tris wrote:
♫ Wine drops keep falling on my head, they keep fallin’ … ♫
On June 24th, 2009 at 8:13 pm ,Blame it on Rioja » Blog Archive » Haro Ready to Rumble? Getting Doused (and later, Soused) in/on Rioja wrote:
[…] Check out Melanie Grayce West’s commentary on the annual wine melee last week in the Wall Street Journal  , as well as the comments of Dr. Vino. […]
On June 25th, 2009 at 1:07 pm ,Adrian wrote:
Haro ready to rumble?
On June 27th, 2009 at 8:46 am ,Laurie wrote:
Giving new meaning to Purple Rain….
On June 27th, 2009 at 7:36 pm ,Brandon S wrote:
“The most fun you’ll ever have spilling wine,” according the NY Times
“Makes us rethink the Super-Soaker-as-a-decanter!” quoth the Washington Post
“Like Jesus blessed a massive water balloon fight!” said BBC.
“62 points,” grunted Jay Miller.
On November 1st, 2010 at 8:02 pm ,Darby wrote:
This just wouldn’t work with Chardonnay!