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Grape Spunk – Wine Memoirs 2015 is designed to be a crude humor book aimed at making fun of the snobby seeming wine bibles and top ten vineyard lists. The book does pay attention to detail as far as including the same basic information usually found in the official wine books. Each of the “wines” is given a name, a year, a vineyard, a label, and a description of sorts.

The humor in the book is gross, lewd, and vulgar, which readers should be able to determine from the fictional names of the “authors” of the book: Roderick Camerson – Nightterror and Felicity Cockstraddler. The book immediately delves into crass territory by divulging these character’s sexual quirks, and continues this trend throughout the book. Each of the “wine labels” – and the fake author photos – are created with very poor photoshopping skills. While this may be the point, these nauseatingly manipulated black and white images quickly becomes an eyesore.

The reviews of these “wines” themselves are so over-the-top crude that they quickly go from being mildly amusing to offensive and downright disgusting. An example of a tamer entry is the Wolf Shat, which is presumably made in Bastardo Valley, Pastastan “where the locals do not change their underwear regularly and toilets don’t flush.” Body parts (mostly female), clothing items, famous people, animals, fruits, various sexual kinks and body fluids, and locations around the globe all fall victim to this attempted humor.

Where one or two of these may have been amusing – if toned down some from the sheer overwhelming barrage of vulgarity – this book subjects potential readers to over ninety different “wines.” Quite a bit of creativity and time clearly went into creating this somewhat shocking book, sadly this is a book that will offend or annoy more readers than are those who may actually enjoy it. This is a case where less would have been more.

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