Wrongo Dongo

Phil and I went to a charity wine tasting last night for our friends Jim & Amy Jo, who started a foundation for pediatric cancer called the Austin Hatcher Foundation.  Every "team" (1-2 people) brought 3 bottles of the same red wine.  Two of the bottles were covered with paper bags, numbered, and set out for mystery tasting while the third bottle was displayed on a table in the center of the room.  As we tasted wines, we wrote down the numbers of the bottles we liked and then voted at the end of the night. The person whose wine had the most votes got to take home everyone else's third bottle, which amounted to at least 50 bottles last night!

Since Phil and I had a hunch that we wouldn't win (and we didn't), we decided to buy the wine with the funniest name, so we came home with three bottles of Wrongo Dongo because, as the bottle says, "Dongo to the party without it!" I'm not sure what the marketing strategy is here.  Honestly, it sounds like a potty word that your mom wouldn't let you say as a kid.  Why would a wine with the word "wrong" and "dong" in it be appealing? Must be for all those reverse psychology folks out there, Phil being one of them.  Unfortunately, we can't tell you what it tastes like because all the bottles were numbered and we didn't know which number was ours, but I can tell you this: it wasn't expensive. So, if you're in the mood for a red wine experiment, check out Wrongo Dongo, if for no other reason, then simply for the name. And, we think this would be a fun idea for a small dinner party. Any takers?