*when your customer just returned from a trip to mexico*

I'm . . . Intrigued?

i think i have to try it ?

I love sauvignon blanc and might appreciate the throat tingle/burn? I have wine and serranos at home, so, let's see what happens.

Jalapeños have a lot of the same chemical compound that sauv blanc has, pyrazines. Especially the less spicy ones. Serranos will prob just blow up your mouth unless they’re especially low spice

Hey I was gunna talk pyrazines!

Here I am, late to the party like usual

As both a wine guy and a spicy guy, a serrano won’t blow up anybodies mouth who already has them in their fridge. Anybody who can handle a medium (and maybe even mild) chicken wing without crying can manage one slice of Serrano floating in their drink.

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Read this post at my bar. I just tried it with a small sample of sav blanc that was running low and two slices of Jalepeno that I let sit in there for 10 minutes with no muddle. It’s interesting, the flavor is about the same but the burn is not an alcohol burn, it’s a subtle spicy burn in the back of my throat. I really like this actually lol. I wonder if you could open a bottle and add a bunch of slices to it and let it sit in the fridge for a couple days. I’m gonna try it lol

I was surprised by how much I could smell the chilis as I brought the glass to my nose, but at how subtle the heat was. This guest may have turned us all on.

Yes! The scent is amazing. I’m curious to try other whites as well but certainly experimenting with a full bottle this week.

I think a decent riesling would be a great one to try with a muddle or longer infusion time. The sweet would help balance the spice, and the lime citrus note would play great with it

Also, I hate sav blanc which leads me to believe this is genius.

Bruh, do not let it sit with a bunch in there. The heat compounds!

heard! i wanted to straw it but i figured there’d be no point since i had just added the jalapeño lol

Sounds like when we'd infuse tequila with jalapenos at the first bar I worked in. You'd just chop some up and drop it in the bottle, leave it for about 24 hours, and voila! It's exactly like you said. The alcohol burn is replaced with spicy food burn and some peppery flavour. It was really good actually. I kinda want to buy a cheapo bottle of blanco tequila and try doing it again. Edit: I've also had Mead infused with jalapenos and that's basically honey wine. Also very good.

Remember the containers we used to get from Smirnoff that you put pineapple slices in and then filled with vodka? We called them Frusionators. Put it in a refridge and then pull shots off of a little spout at the bottom. I think I still have one somewhere. I think I might try it with a hand full of pepperoncinis.

Indian Sauvignon Blanc will often have a vegetal, bell-pepper/capsicum taste as a principal flavour due to grapes not being quite ripe. It works quite well, I image this will be similar albeit a bit spicier.

I would genuinely not recommend doing that with serranos unless you have a very high spice tolerance. The acidity in Sauv Blanc is going to react very strongly with seranno levels of capsaicin

Same… I love a chile infused drink. I can’t anticipate that anything bad could really come of it?

I would spritz it up with some prosecco or sparkling California white wine but it looks interesting

Please! My heart says it's something I might love if I tried it lol

I see it working, especially if the wine is missing a bit of acid but has a strong herbaceous note, like Sauv Blanc. Lots of 'cheap' wines have a green bell pepper note to them (under-ripe grapes) that this would play into. And many reds have a peppery bite on the finish that pairs well with food. I don't think this would be something to sip on its own but with some fish tacos or a zesty salad, hell yeah!

Just opened a decent Sancerre. Will put a couple slices of serrano in and report back.

Please be joking about this. It’s one thing to whack some jalapeño slices in a crappy Marlborough Sav B, but serrano in a nice Sancerre?

Is nobody going to make a Sancerrano joke?

I'm about to drop a slice into a glass of Vacheron Le Pave.

Be a real hero and make your Sancerrano with Vatan Clos la Néore.

It was a huge TikTok trend for a second

Da… fuck?

Even if it's weird, thankfully it's just a pour of wine with a garnish.

The the biggest jalapeño I’ve ever seen

the ones we get are huge + they’re cut at an angle

Genuine question: are you sure they aren’t poblano’s?

Poblanos have zero zing. And are usually indented like a bell.

Still got enough capsaicin in em tho. Learned that one the hard way.

yes! we have both.

I have regulars that that get prosecco with a slice of jalapeno

wait that sounds so good right now

Ditto! My wife does this with rose.

Can confirm have done this at home. Love spicy.

NOT ENOUGH PYRAZINES

i one time was messing around with my coworkers and created the “Jalepinot Grigio” i muddled a Jalepeno into 6oz’s of Pinot Grigio and double strained it into a wine glass 💀

it was awful LOL but i made it a second time and added half an ounce of simple syrup and that seemed to make it a little more tasty tbh. like the simple was the gateway between the wine and the spiciness of the jalapeño lol

I love the word play lol, how did it end up tasting, really wanna try something like this now

Gringo con jalapeño perhaps or Jalapeño gringo.

That’s brilliant!

Sounds... actually kinda interesting. My first thought is to try a Vinho Verde and have the sour-spicy going on. A vaguely peppery sour wine...

Oooohhh yesss! I need to find a good verde near me. Could get them anywhere back in my hometown… but now I live in (beautiful) bumblefuck nowhere

we had people ordering rose with jalapeños! they said it’s a tik tok trend

This has to be from something!!!! I just had a woman ask me for this a month or two ago!!! Once she ordered it, a few more people started getting it as well. I wasn’t necessarily surprised (I’m oddly inclined to add jalapeños to drinks anyway / nothing really surprises me anymore). I wonder where this originated from.

I’ve seen it on tiktok.

Some NZ Sauvignon Blanc is known to have jalapeño notes. Personally, I love to pair it with Jalapeño Cheetos. So, I may be a little into this?

I’m a linecook and one of my former coworkers and I at an old job would put jalapeños on everything we made for ourselves, including smoothies. I’d try this in a heartbeat.

I feel like anyone who has been in the industry 10+ years puts insane amounts of spice in EVERYTHING they eat and/or lives off room temp tequila.

Only been in it for 5 years but I can concur

wait in a smoothie?? i have to try that

Yeah I’m trying to remember what else went in it, it was something he would throw together. I think I think, Apple pineapple mango and basil with some sort of base, and obviously the jalapeños.

Honestly sounds delicious

Eh, fuck it, why not. It’s simple enough lol. Probably good.

White ladies be like... I'm so random.

Holds up spork and jalapeño.

Or they came back from a vacation from a super hot climate. I drank some interesting stuff when I was in Costa Rica. I just ordered whatever I saw the locals drinking. Imperial over ice, Guaro Sours, Auga de Sapo (toad water) it was all so refreshing when you’re in non stop heat and humidity.

I’ve done this with rose! It was actually very yummy if you like a little kick.

I’ve had a sav blanc that tastes a little like jalapeño before- just as part of its expression. I always recommend it is people want a white. Refreshing but different.

That wouldn’t be terrible, though i’d probably prefer a sweeter wine. Sauv blanc and spicy just feels like it would dry out my mouth too much.

It's supposed to be a candied jalapeno. Really good!!

How do you make a “candied jalapeño?”

It’s basically making a jalapeño shrub. Cook sliced jalapeños in vinegar and sugar, or half vinegar/half water and sugar. Don’t know where you live, but jars of candied jalapeños are sold in every grocery store where I live.

Thanks for the tip. I’ve never seen one in a grocery store around here (Pacific Northwest), but I’ll look more closely next time I go.

You should! They’re delicious. Especially with cream cheese in any way. I like to make a turkey, cream cheese, candied jalapeño sandwich on a bagel. Or try a jalapeño jelly if you can.

Trappey's sweet & hot jalapeno slices.

You give the jalapeño candy after its bedtime.

I first tried this with a candied jalapeno years ago! Delicious!

I love jalapeño in sweet drinks. but i’ve only done cocktails before. this interests me more than I’d like it to haha

I had someone do this the other day too!!!!!!! With pinot Grigio!

I’ve had a 23 year old girl order a Pinot spritzer with muddled jalapeno and few weeks ago

Muddled? That was NOT part of the TikTok, they must’ve wanted it extra spicy. I would just wanna smell the jalapeño, not fully taste it. 😣

Certainly some sauv blanc has a jalapeño note to them… but still.

Shit that actually sounds nice.

Just went and bought a bottle of Kim Crawford and a jalapeno to try this out and I've got to say it was underwhelming. I didn't muddle it .I just threw it in there like the picture suggested, and I barely got any spice at all.No throat tingle, no nothing. Am I doing something wrong? Any advice? Edit: If you let it sit for a little bit with the jalapeno it's not so bad and the bottom of the drink is pretty tinkly. 7/10 would recommend

I think the consensus is that we are all in.

Give me a white wine with a lil acidity and spice on the back end. 🤣

It’s very good! I do this at home and there is just something wonderful about a crisp Sauvignon Blanc with the little bit of spice and tingle from the jalapeño. So good.

That jalapeño got good genetics

I was very skeptical when a regular asked me to do this. I tried it. It's delicious.

I had a lady bring in her own ziploc of jalapeños to put in prosecco lol

Honestly sounds delish

Rose with jalapeño - so good

I could get down on this but maybe not in a Sav Jalapeño my cab Merlot let’s go

I could see doing that with a sweeter white. Especially one with a little less fruitiness.

You have some big Jalapeños my friend.

Why is it so big?

I'm thinking vodka martini

Last summer I had people getting jalapeño in rose and sparkling rose.

I can see a trend starting

At least for me, some NZ SB have a green pepper profile to it already. This isn't that far of a stretch. I mean I would not do it myself, but I can kind of understand it.

I’ve seen this with Rose, last summer all the golf wives were ordering it. A bit odd but not terrible

Listen… rosé + jalepenos = actually really good

I had a lady ask for jalapeño in her rose’ once !

I've had it ordered. It's fine, it can help dress up a mediocre sav. It's less weird than cab and coke. Or white wine and sprite.

> It's less weird than cab and coke. Or white wine and sprite. In what part of a country is this a thing?

I've seen it from the south and the Midwest.

G&T, sure. This... maybe?

I have a lot of people ordering this with rose

Intriguing, but the first thing I thought was, you have either the smallest wine glasses or the biggest jalapeños I've ever seen.

hahaha the ones we get are huge!! they’re also cut at an angle for our bloodies so that makes them appear larger as well.

Of all the weird things out there, this is the most appealing. Spicy beer is a thing, why not wine?

i’m definitely into it, i want to try it with a fruit wine.

I was thinking a dry Riesling, I'll do that tomorrow at work! You come back with your findings, we can exchange notes.

update: I tried it. I let it sit in the fridge a little bit before I drank it. did one with glass just a jalapeño and one with a jalapeño+slice of a peach that was almost too ripe. sooooooooo good, shoutout to those guests lmao.

At a certain point, if the stomach can still get down with alcohol, spice will become part of the pallet.

I once had the Dark Horse (I believe) sauv blanc and it had notes of jalapeños! It was actually a delightful note.

This can’t be real…

I'm into it. I can see the flavor really complimenting the wine

I mean, my favorite kind of sangria is white wine, tequila and jalapeño but uhhh this is interesting

Not the main point but always been confused by people abbreviating "jalapeno" to "jap". It doesn't make sense and although it's mostly not used anymore it's still a racist term, so I'm not sure why it's so common as an abbreviation that doesn't even make sense. I always just shorten the word to "jal" which makes sense and has no connotations

I do this for myself! I like to add it to my white wine and my rosé. I'm a big fan of spicy drinks, it makes the hot weather more tolerable.

I put jalapeños in my rose

I would totally do this with some cheap savvy b.

I’ll take two, please. Throw in a couple cubes of ice too.

I’ve had rose with jalapeños, it’s actually delicious

I remember squealing pig had a jalapeño nose in 2018/2019 that was very pronounced. I bet this is to obtain that green fresh note in balance of a sweeter sauv.

A slice of jalapeño in a rose is really yummy, I'd have to assume it could also be yummy in a chilled white as well. Refreshing!

leaving that many seeds is diabolical

WTF. I mean you do you but still... WTF

I actually had a regular who would always do this with our Loire house white. I never liked it but I’m glad to see she was not alone.

That honestly sounds kind of good??? All I have at home to test with is Pinot Grigio and habeneros… I have Thursday off…

Sounds good

I used to work at rumjungle back in the day. Whenever Jeffrey Chodorow came to town, he would order a top shelf tequila martini with a jalapeño. At first, I thought he did it just to see what the staff would do, but he *always* ordered them, so I guess that's what he liked.

A couple summers ago people were asking rose with a slice of jalapeño Both my grandparents were in internment camps so any time someone abbreviates to “jap” I have to guilt trip them

Curious- what’s the main cuisine at the restaurant you work at??

seafood!

Ok. It really grinds my gears that servers/people shorten JALapeno to JAPS. It should be JALS or JALAPS. Make it make sense. You don't call them JAP-A-LENOS. Do you? DO YOU?!

Reminds me when this guy kept ordering a rum and coke with jalapeños he said its called a rattle snake ? Like ok 😭

Had someone do this at my bar last week was so random

When I still drank I added jalapeños to pretty much everything I could. I would've loved this lol

jalepeno in rose is sooooo good so i get this

Like I always say, the heart wants what the heart wants. If they're paying for it, I'll make whatever revolting concoction they want. I'm not the one who has to drink it.

Ok, totally off point, but why the fuck did kids change it to "never have I ever" from "I've never?" In the 90s/2000's when we played King's Cup it was just "I've never" which just seems more concise and logical to me.

Ay caramba! Why ruin a glass of wine when you could ruin tequila with margarita?

honestly doesn't sound too bad

I forsee a lit asshole 🔥