Wine Ads

Darla Ward

English 120

Mr. White

March 7, 2013

Wine Ads

The first settlers from other countries found the new world to be filled with thousands of beautiful grapevines. The Vinifera Grapes could not survive in the soil for a very long, and the wine produced from native grapes was undrinkable. Hybridization became accepted to produce a grapevine that could be drinkable. The Wine Spectator magazine shows all different kinds of wines from the United States to other countries. Wine is priced from reasonable to expensive all throughout the magazine. Some ads show expensive wine drinking at foreign countries that not everyone can visit with the formal restaurants. Others ads show just everyday people hangout at the bar drinking wine. My friends and I are always willing to taste wine. For an ad to work for us, it must present a quality product that we can afford. Ads with overpriced wines do not appeal to my particular language community.

My friends and I have known each other for over a year. They both are from other countries; one is from Spain and the other from Jamaica. We found that we all loved tasting different wine and instantly became friends. We always find different wine cellars to attend tastings. Sometimes we get a group of friends to join us for our adventures to wine cellars. The wine cellar in the Outer Banks is a good example of a good time. My friends and I joined each other for a trip to the Outer Banks Winery and tasted fifteen different wines one Saturday afternoon. While there, we tasted wine that was sour and dry. As we took a drink, every one of us screwed up our faces and decided that it was not the wine we wanted to taste again. We like wines that are sweet and some that are dry and sweet.

In The Wine Spectator Magazine, A woman and her friends are each holding a glass of wine at a formal restaurant. They are sitting at a round table with menus in front of them and a bucket of wine in the middle of the table. They ordered food and...