I was talking with some buddies the other night and someone mention TJ Swan wine. This was a cheap a$$ wine that we used to drink once in a while back when we were in high school. Does anyone here remember that stuff and is it still available?

 

TJ Swan. Wow. So what happened to Annie Greensprings, Boones Farm, and the cure all/end all Mad Dog 20/20?

 

I've seen Boones Farm and MD 20/20 around but I don't recall seeing TJ Swan.

 

Is it possible to get a hangover triggered by memories?

 

Leave us not forget Ripple and Champale...

But then, I was a big-time Tuborg Gold fan at the time.

 

md 2020...... Thats some Durty stuff

 

Trust me - it's nowhere near as rotgut as Night Train or Thunderbird.

 

"Leave us not forget Ripple and Champale..."

This gives you Champipple.

I worked in a liquor store on the south side of Hollyweird from 1973 to 1980. What an education for a teenage boy. And those stories about the delivery boy are true, but warped in the Hollyweird way.

We sold all those pop wines, essentially sweetend wines made so that you could get a buzz even if you didn't like the finer points of wine, or get your girlfriend drunk since it tasted like Pop.

We had all those and sangrias, and really cheap $1.89 Vodka, Brew 102, oh joy, Chiantis, Blue Nuns and of course the Malt liquors like Mickeys Big Mouth and Colt 45 etc. We even had a few gallon jugs of Rhineskeller explode on the shelf, I guess because they weren't done brewing when they left the factory.

The 70s were a weird time for booze if you ask me.

Jim Henderson

 

One of my daughter's friends showed up here the other night with a bottle of MD 20/20. I forgot they still made the stuff. And, yeah, it's still as bad a swill as it ever was.

T-Bird. Wow, that brings back some memories, some of them not so good. IIRC, it always tasted worse towards the bottom of the bottle.

I see Boone's Farm is still around, but it's more like wine cooler now. Or maybe it always was, but we just didn't know or care back then.

 

Annie Green Springs was ahead of its time...a wine cooler before they had been invented. Or call it a "soad pop wine." That stuff was only about $1. per bottle when I was drinking it...you could down quite a few & not be much impaired. Country Cherry was my flavor of choice.

PS....Yep, I drank quite a few Tuborg Golds also.

 

I drank a couple of bottles of TJ Swan one time in high school (early 80's). It tasted pretty going down but was pretty bad coming back up. Massive headache the following day. Headache so bad my hair hurt.

Do they still make cherry vodka?

 

Ouch, Cherry Vodka...and Peppermint Schnapps and Sloe Gin and Creme DeMenthe...Dang my heads starting to hurt...

 

TJ Swan....mellow nights. Pure 70's

used to go to the drive in with about a case of beer, and 2-3 bottles of tj, or cold duck (we were young & stupid)

i still remember the night we took a chainsaw (less chain) to the drive in....during a showing of Texas Chainsaw Massacre.......