- No one's ever paired a wine to Taco Bell.
- Do you think we're the first?
- Yeah, no one's ever paired a wine to Doritos.
- Do you think we're the first?
- Yeah, and no one's ever paired a wine to just being Loco.
- That's like every Saturday night.
- Yeah, yeah. OK.
I'm Harley Morenstein and this is Wine and Cheeseburger.
A show where I know a lot about one of those things
and it rhymes with sneeze burger.
I've teamed up with my sommelier, Lara,
who's going to show us wine clowns
how to get fancy with our fast food.
Today on the menu is Taco Bell's infamous Doritos Locos Taco
or as we call it on the streets, the DLT.
Ooh, look at the vibrance of the orange dust.
So orange, so vibrant.
So dusty. The leakage drippage of the meat.
I want to kiss this taco all over.
Perfect ingredient layering in this assemblage.
Whoever made this taco knows what they're doing.
Just a beautiful DLT, right there.
It's taco Tuesday, baby.
- It's not Tuesday.
- Don't do that please. Not now.
Wanna see something cool?
- Always.
- Send in my taco drone.
OK, cool, no?
Ooh. - I've never had one of these.
- You haven't lived yet.
And I also had my drone put it on the taccordion.
- Why are the tacos orange?
- Because they're Loco. This one's for you.
- Aw, thanks Harley.
- Gentle. You can crack this bad boy easy.
- This looks pretty good. Cheers.
Is there a polite way to do this?
- Absolutely not.
Yeah!
Yeah.
Loco.
- That tastes like a taco with Doritos.
- How are you going to pair a wine to Loco?
- We can do it, Harley.
It's going to be a bit tricky
because that Dorito flavor is very strong
but you can still taste the meat
and the cheese and the lettuce kind of balances it out.
One more bite.
That's smashing.
OK, I'm gonna go get the wine.
- OK.
Now that she's gone,
it's time for another one of Harley's Hacks.
- Harley's Hacks.
- Here are three wine cocktails
you can make to impress your friends.
This is a white wine sangria.
Fill that bad boy up with white wine.
And then over here, I got all this fruit
Apricot brandy, Peach Schnapps.
Peach Schnopps.
You say Schnapps or you say Schnopps?
I don't (beep) care what you're thinking.
Canada Dry ginger ale.
This is like number one Canadian export.
If you're a real guy, you'll do moves like this.
Give it a nice stir.
The stirring gets me so fired up.
Fired up!
Tastes like victory.
Oh, you want another one? OK.
White Port cocktail.
I got some Port.
Tonic.
I'll put a lemon on top.
That's just garnish, baby. Garnish!
This next cocktail's the Calimocho.
We got Coca-Cola over here.
And we've got wine over here.
Calimocho.
Consider yourself educated.
Three wines again.
- Three.
Wine number one, Vinho Verde from Portugal.
To me, this would be the equivalent
of drinking a beer and eating tacos but with wine.
Now take a bite of your taco.
The bubbles go with the taco.
- Yeah.
- And it brings out the flavor of the meat
and it actually pairs really well with the Doritos flavor.
- It does pair well with the Doritos.
You know what I thought?
At first I thought maybe I got a bite
with a lot of Doritos powder on it,
but I realized that they coat the whole thing
in so much Doritos powder.
It was just enhanced by the Vinho Verde.
- Isn't it delicious?
- Vinho Verde all day.
You ever say that?
- No. - You can now.
If you want.
- Eh. - OK.
- OK. Wine number two?
- Yes.
- It's Garnacha.
- What up Garnacha?
- It's a Spanish wine.
And we're serving in a little bit cold, Harley.
I think you're going to love it.
- Hold up.
Serving a little bit cold.
- Yeah. You don't always have to drink red wine warm.
Take a bite of your taco.
- Don't threaten me with a good time.
- What do you think?
- The Taco Bell is making the wine taste better.
How crazy is that?
- I think this wine really brings out
the meat flavors in the taco.
- These are two brothers.
- It actually is making it taste saltier
which I don't think is a bad thing.
- No, that's a good thing.
It's strange because after having the Vinho Verde
and tasting it and then having the Grenache.
- Garnacha? - And then tasting it
it's like a different taco every time.
- It is.
- Our mouths are so stupid. - Isn't it amazing?
- You see how easily brainwashed our mouths are
by a couple grapes.
- OK. I think we're ready to go to
wine number three, the Tempranillo.
- Yeah, let's do it.
- First I think we should cleanse our palette.
- Today, we're using celery.
- I'll do you one better, ants on a log.
This is the OG DLT.
Think about it.
You got the vessel, you got the filling.
You got the toppings.
It's a taco.
- That's not a palette cleanser, Harley.
- Not with that kind of attitude.
Take one, take it, yeah take it.
Hmm, my palette is cleansed right now.
- Oh good.
Wine number three, this is another Spanish wine.
Tempranillo, one of my favorite wines.
Now take a bite of that taco and see how it fares.
Cheers. I think this is going to be
a lovely pairing with your DLT.
- Oh.
- Whoa.
This made the DLT taste like it's not a 60 cent menu item.
- It really did.
I think it's such a big wine
that it's making all those flavors really round
and beautiful.
- That's so weird, it tastes fancy.
- So what do you think?
What's your favorite?
- These guys were great.
The first two were amazing, anyways. It was awesome.
But I got a connection with Tempranillo.
I got a connection now, like this is my wine.
- Well now you know.
- This is my wine now.
For me.
Like I finally drank a wine
and I was like, that's a wine for me.
I'll be honest with you,
before this,
whenever people are like, oh,
I don't drink that type of wine.
I'm like, shut up.
You're a liar.
You're just a liar.
It's all the same (beep).
And now I'm like, bro, Tempranillo
is for me yo.
- I like that.
- Try it on. Try it on.
You don't want it?
- That's for you - OK, OK.