Whole Foods, where Lucille Bluth buys her bananas for $10, is not where you would expect to find cheap wine. Nevertheless, they do have a product for those who, struck by remorse in the middle of their weekly grocery trip, feel the need to make up for their profligate habits. Three Wishes Chardonnay is only $3! One dollar a wish, says Joe.
"What do you think?" I ask him.
Joe tilts his head, and thinks. "There is a worse version of bad wine," he says, finally, "than this version."
It is bad. It is too bad. It is simultaneously too sweet, too sour, and too water.
Now I know what my three wishes are!
We finish the wine. We drink some beer. C comes home; we all hang out. At the end of the night, I walk Joe to the door.
"That was terrible," I say.
A pause, as Joe thinks for three seconds. "I liked it," he says.
