June 22, 2025

JAWS at 50: An Anniversary Party!


A Liquor Run by D.M. ANDERSON💀

What better way to celebrate an anniversary than booze?

Well, yeah, there’s sex, but probably not for a movie’s anniversary. That would be weird even by nerd standards. On the other hand, it might be amusing to see the look on my wife's face if I entered the bedroom for date night dressed as Captain Quint clutching a fishing pole and a can of Narragansett.


So booze, it is. And to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the greatest movie ever made, California’s Fior di Sole winery has created three different Jaws themed wines. I don’t know how much they produced, but in my neck of the woods, these were only available at one place...World Market, my wife’s home-away-from-home where she loves to shop for overpriced dinnerware and wallet-busting toiletries. When it was me who suggested going there one Sunday afternoon, she must’ve thought her real husband was replaced by a robot replica.


Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women.
Anyway, World Market had bottles of Amity Island Red and Tropical Blue Spritzer, both of which I snatched up right away. And who cares if I gave up drinking years ago? I wasn’t planning on opening them anyway. These bottles could be filled with cough syrup and mouthwash and I’d be none the wiser. Since products like this don’t come along that often, I’m of the opinion that anybody buying one of these beauties with the intention of actually drinking it probably needs to attend an AA meeting or two.

Of course, now that I’ve got them, my growing Jaws shrine would be incomplete without that other classic piece of related merch…a Narragansett beer can like the one Quint drank and crushed on-board the Orca. I was forced to use eBay for that one, but it’ll look great next to my wine purchases and it only set me back six bucks. After all, it ain’t an anniversary without booze, even if all I do is look at it.

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