If you’re a Star Trek fan with a couple extra dollars to spend (and are over 21), we have good news for you: a pair of Star Trek: Picard-themed wines are headed your way.
We may present: Star Trek Wines. The branding is on point, since wine plays a role in Picard, the upcoming CBS All Access series where Patrick Stewart returns to his iconic role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard. At the start, at least, he’s still bumming about his family’s winery, having left Star Fleet behind.
Set for a September release, the 2016 Chateau Picard Bordeaux is described as “an 85% cabernet sauvignon and 15% merlot blend that is subtly smoky and spicy with a bright, fresh, clean-tasting style.” Meanwhile, the United Federation of Planets wine “has aromatics of concentrated strawberry, blackberry and plum preserves with a chewy-layered mid-palate filled with hints of white peppercorn, sweet red and black fruit.”
Sounds tasty. The Chateau Picard will set you back 60
bars of gold pressed latinum
dollars, while the UFOP wine is $50. Engage taste buds.
Or, you could spend that money on tickets to see 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture — the first-ever Star Trek movie — back on the big screen! In celebration of the movie’s 40th anniversary, Paramount and Fathom Events are bringing the film back to theaters for a two-night special event on September 15 and 18. The film that started Trek’s long journey through the box office doesn’t receive much love (from me at least), but it is the original, so there’s something to be said for it. And that something might just be, “More Cauteau Picard, please.”
Tickets for the showing aren’t on sale yet, but when they are, you can look for them here.
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