Comedy Festival 2017: The Wine Bluffs is perfect for drinking, er, laughing right now ★★★★½

Entertaining varietal show with plenty of cleanskin comedy. It’s a romp around the vineyard that seeks to demystify the cellar door experience but only leaves us more confused than ever.

Don’t let the wine judge rosettes deceive you.

Damian Callinan and Paul Calleja are not sommeliers. The pair know as much about fermented skins, barrel age and tannins as the rest of us, which is not much. But, boy, can they spit out the bull...!

The Wine Bluffs is 65 minutes of wildly funny winespeak, a romp around the vineyard that seeks to demystify the cellar door experience and only leaves us feeling more confused.

Callinan and Calleja swirl around like grapes in a vat, reading wine auras (”Bit of Bundoora there, just a whisper of Northcote”) and doing wine match ups (Chiko Rolls and Moselle, anyone?).

The Wine Bluffs, Paul Calleja (left) and Damian Callinan (right), are sniffing out a very funny comedy show.

Political wines get an airing — I especially liked the Pauline Hanson red which goes off if it comes near anything foreign — but The Wine Bluffs really hits its stride when the audience gets its hands dirty. Be warned: if you own a two temperature fridge, you might not want to put your hand up.

Don’t set this one aside. The Wine Bluffs is for drinking, er...laughing now.

The Wine Bluffs,

Coopers Malthouse until April 22