Remember Lancers wine?
It's still around, but it's maybe just not quite as cool as it was back in the '70s.
The lightly sparkling wine, produced by a Portuguese winery, was first introduced in the 1940s.
If you go to the Lancers website it has some really cool-looking beatnick cartoon characters enjoying the wine in a variety of settings.
If you were looking closely during last week's episode of Mad Men, Joan had a bottle of Lancers on the table when she was hosting her out-of-town guest to a home-cooked meal.
Such a sweet rose might not be the biggest influence in the au courant wine palate, but it has been making a comeback lately. It's an especially appropriate time for it to be doing so — those long, hot summer days beg for a lighter form of refreshment than a red wine.
I remember my art teacher would bring the bottles into class and we would use them for candle art projects. Remember the ones where you light different color candles and drip the wax on the bottle layer after layer?
Those vintage bottles are still sought-after collectibles.
They're great as vases or just decorative standalone pieces.
The shape of the bottles, the colors, are still so cool.
Some of the bottles are ceramic, some painted glass; they can range from $4 a bottle to $40 or $50 a bottle for some of the really old bottles.
And then there are the accessories.
I ran across what I think is a Lancers cutting board and an old advertisement from a magazine that I had framed to go with the other Lancers stuff.
I found a clay Lancers wine cooler on eBay listed at $28.00.
Lancers wine brings back a lot of memories
Enjoy yourself this weekend and enjoy some memories of times past as you enjoy a favorite glass of wine this weekend. Lancers pairs well with any walk down memory lane.
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