- Why are none of these recipes working?
I thought this was gonna be good. (laughing)
(playful music)
So today, we're gonna be making
cheap red wine more drinkable.
- Ooh. - I think it would take
rather a lot to make a red wine
not drinkable for me, to be honest, like.
- On board.
- I don't think I'm a wine snob.
I like wine.
- I love an Argentinian malbec.
I couldn't tell you why, like,
I'm not like, this is full-bodied.
- I don't mix anything with my wine.
I just have the wine.
Unless it's sangria. - Yeah.
Or mulled wine.
- I'm not big on mulled wine.
Kept boiling away the alcohol.
(laughing)
- Red wine, it's just easier to get right, it's like juice.
- So we're gonna make them adult juice.
- Yeah.
(laughing)
- Okay.
- We should try the wine, let's just like have a little sip.
- Of course.
- Oh, um, no, I don't.
- That smells like vinegar.
- Got a good nose.
Very few legs.
- Cheers.
- Yeah, it's not great.
- Okay, it's not my favorite.
- Not a first choice wine.
- No.
- This is a calimocho, yeah, it's apparently,
it's a traditional drink from the Basque region
of Spain and France.
- Equal parts cola and wine and--
- And garnish with a slice of lemon.
- Yeah.
- First of all, I think red wine
and cola is a bizarre combination.
- It is.
The lemon will be a bit like, fun.
The bit of fizz will jazz it up a bit.
- Yeah. - I've got, you know,
I feel good about this.
- [Both] Salud.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
- Hm.
- So, I was wrong.
- That tastes like medicine.
- It's not great.
- He says, drinking some more.
- Ugh.
- (laughing) It does not taste good.
(laughing)
- I don't think this made the wine any more drinkable.
I would rather just drink the cheap wine.
- It's not great, but it has made the wine taste better.
- Yeah.
- 100% - Still not
a great drink, though.
- They've ruined both wine
and Coke for me. - Yeah (laughing)
- So this is equal parts red wine
to soda water with some fruit in it.
- I'm gonna say to like, there.
(fizzing)
- Oh! (laughing)
- Why is soda water a lot like a lemonade?
- Yeah, that is weird, isn't it?
- It looks very harmless, something child me
would probably enjoy drinking.
- Whether or not it tastes any good remains to be seen,
but, let's keep, oh, it smells odd.
Cheers. - Cheers.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
- Oh, that's no good.
- That has no taste.
It's like if someone yelled "red wine" down a corridor.
That's what I guess. (laughing)
- I'm someone who really enjoys
light sparkling water, soda water, yes, I know,
it tastes like TV static, whatever, I don't care.
(laughing)
- I personally don't think the soda water's
improved the red wine in any way.
- Did it make it more drinkable?
No. - Made it worse.
- Made it less drinkable.
- If you don't like red wine and you're trying
to opt in for a spritzer, maybe try
a rose or any other drink available.
- Would I drink it again?
I mean-- - No, that is rank.
Ugh.
(laughing)
A red wine spritzer.
There's a reason it sounds ridiculous, because it is.
- This shoulda been lemonade.
- Yeah, that mighta worked.
It'd be like, sorta like a very rinky-dink sangria.
We're doing it with lemonade.
- I almost think lemonade would improve the red wine now.
- Do you? - Yeah.
- Sorry, sorry,
I can only apologize. (laughing)
My pouring skills aren't great.
- Easy.
- Cheers.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
- Oh, I could drink that.
- That's a lot better. - See?
- Ooh, that's nice.
Okay, I can get down
with this one. - Well, it's got like
a tart-like kick.
- I think I still prefer it by itself.
- Yeah, I still think I would rather
just drink the red wine by itself.
- Did this make it more drinkable?
Absolutely, it did.
I quite like this.
It's not bad at all, actually.
- This is dangerous.
- Yeah. - Do you wanna try it
with orange juice?
- Yeah.
- And then maybe it kinda becomes a sangria.
- [Both] Cheers.
- Ah.
- Yeah, that's not bad.
That tastes like sangria, actually, that's nice.
I think - That is great.
- we've made a thing.
- Oh, that is delicious.
- Yeah.
- Okay, now we're gonna move
to the next one, which is kinda rogue.
- I'm scared.
- At first, like my initial reaction
when I heard like, red wine hot chocolate,
I was like, oh, that could actually kind of go together.
- That looks so wrong.
I honestly can't even believe this is happening.
- That glug, though, sounded so good,
glug, glug, glug, glug, glug.
- Yeah, but red wine in a hot chocolate.
- You know, sometimes you go to, like,
vineyards and stuff and they do like
red wine and chocolate pairings.
- This could be an Options flavor.
- This could be an Options flavor,
merlot. - Please, Cadbury,
call me.
- Yeah.
- [Both] Cheers.
- It is weird, though. (laughing)
- [Both] Ugh!
- It's sour.
- Taste this one. - I like, do I like it?
Yeah, switch pop.
- Don't like yours.
- Yeah, yours is much better than mine.
- Oh.
That is a bad bottle of wine.
Nothing tastes good.
- It doesn't make you gag or anything, it's just.
- Did it make the wine more drinkable?
Not really.
- I mean, I liked it with this wine, this was good.
I'm in my cabin, my man who looks
like Jude Law walks in the door.
Just making something warm for us
to cuddle in front of a nice streaming service.
- A nice streaming service!
- This 100% did not make the wine more drinkable.
- It's all right.
Eh.
- I'm into this.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
- I've now really come to appreciate
cheap red wine 'cause this is disgusting.
- In terms of making the cheap red wine
more drinkable, no, we did not succeed.
A resounding failure.
- If you've bought a red wine that you don't like,
just either be a sport and down it anyway
or just put it in the bin.
- If there is an aftertaste, that isn't great.
- Yeah.
- You can put all the stuff in the world,
but it's always gonna be there, it's lingering.
- Yeah, absolutely. - It's like
a bad ex-boyfriend.
- Mm-hmm. - Just won't stop texting.
- Yeah.