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Mike Supple teams up with professional video game critic Chris Watters to pair great wines and video games. In this first episode we bring you the non-vintage pro-mis-Q-ous Red Wine and Grand Theft Auto IV: a perfect blend of spice, intensity and...promiscuity.
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NV promisQous Red - $11 retail - Purchased at Target.

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Mike Supple: I'm Mike Supple with SuppleWine.com, and I'm excited.

Chris Watters: Me too. It's exciting.

Mike: It is. And why am I excited? I'm excited because I'm with Chris Watters. One of the premier voices in video gaming is here right now. It's what he does for a living, and how can you hate that? He gets to play video games and talk about them. So I'm chilling out with Chris. We're drinking some wine and playing some video games.

Chris: Oh that is probably not gonna end well.

Mike: [Reading screen.] "Stunt jump completed again."

Chris: Come on. Rotate! All the way around. All the way around! All's well that ends well, baby!

Mike: So I want you to pull a game for us. Maybe something with a little more action, a little bit more intensity, 'cuz I grabbed a bottle of wine that's all about spice [explosion on screen] and intensity and intensity and richness and body. And, well, let's just take a look at what we've got here and see if you can match this wine with a game.

We're drinking the non-vintage "promisQous." If you want to zoom in on that real quick here.

Chris: PromisQous, huh?

Mike: Yeah. In fact this is called "promisQous." It's a California red table wine. It's a blend of some Zinfandel, some Cabernet [Sauvignon], Merlot, Petite Sirah. And it's spicy and fun times. So, as a video game expert, what can you do for us with a bottle of promisQous red?

Chris: I mean, promiscuous, spicy, fun times: there's no better game that you can have all that stuff packed in to than Grand Theft Auto IV. This game was a huge hit last year, and everybody knows the Grand Theft Auto series, right? You drive around town, you get chased by cops, you blow things up, you run people over, you...patronize ladies of the evening and steal their money (which is your money the first time around). It's an adult game, and you can just have a whole lot of fun being brash, being bold. Going to strip clubs, going drinking, hanging out with your buddies.

Mike: So what we do on a weekend.

Chris: Yeah, so you know, it's pretty accurate. It's kind of like a busman's holiday to be honest. I'm like, 'Oh, I just escaped from the cops and arrived home. Now I have to get chased by cops in the video game.'

And the game is all about doing whatever the hell you want to do, and doing it loud. Whether you're just driving around downtown Bohan bumping the Puerto Rican radio station out the back, or driving an attack helicopter and going on some crazy gang related missions. I like the promisQous wine because it's bold, and it's brash. It goes with the attitude, it goes with the play style.

Run. Run, this place is gonna blow!

[Explosion, character on screen flies through the air and dies.]

Remember: Video games are for all ages; wine is not. Obey the law; enjoy responsibly.