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The Paso Robles Wine Country is one of the fastest growing premium vineyard and winery regions in California.

File this under, “what won’t they think of next?” The world of wine marketing has taken some pretty strange twists and turns over the years: wine in a box (good idea!); critters on the label (who would have guessed?); wine just for women (lame!); integrated plastic cups for drinking (huh?).

Now the latest from the drunk staffers at some marketing agency somewhere in France: open a bottle, get laid get a date.

Apparently the scheme works like this. Several different types of wine are sold under the moniker of “Soif du Coeur” (Thirsty Heart). You buy a pink bottle if you’re a girl. You buy a blue bottle if you’re a boy. You open it up and drink it. Then after you’ve emptied the bottle and are feeling lonely (not a bad bet) you can see a code that you enter on a web site to be matched up with presumably some other lonely wine lover who wanted a mate bad enough to drain a bottle.

Because, you know: if you drink the same crappy wine, you MUST be compatible.

Well, I suppose the good news is that the wine only costs three Euros, so it will be a pretty cheap date.

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