Wine

[bort]

Hey Joe... I can't read the labels! Whatzit?!

[DonShirer]

Consumers Report and the New York Times Dining&Wine site periodically recommend wine at $15 and less. I have tried many of these from local wine stores and found them tasty, but have found a few duds on their lists as well. Wines from lesser known wine-producing countries like New Zealand, Chile and Spain are often offered at a bargain price. And if you want inexpensive, read:
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[Chadtuba]

I made it to the sale this evening and while there was no 2 buck Chuck I feel I did get some good deals. I picked up 4 different wines to try (along with their respective 1 cent 2nd bottle) so we'll see how this goes. One is from a local vineyard so I'm a little hopeful that I'll like this one and then can contribute to the locals.

[PMeuph]

You can always add 2 oz. Popov to 6 oz. of Welch's...

Oh, what class!


This kind of reminds me of a college acquaintance of mine who use to add brewer's yeast to Fruitopia....

[Dan Schultz]

...downright good booze like the single-malt scotches.

"single-malt scotches" is not necessarily synonymous with "good booze".....

That's true. However... having spent two years in Scotland back in the 60's while with The Navy... I appreciate the history and local lore that goes with each of them. It's true that some of them might not be suitable for everyone. One of my favorite drinks is "The World's Smoothest Martini".... made with a 50/50 mix of Glenfiddish and Bombay Sapphire Gin.

Back in those days... us sailors would take an empty jug to the local druggist and buy a gallon of draft sherry (basic cooking wine) for a 'half-crown' (which was two shillings and six pence or about 35 cents in the mid-sixties)... and go to the beach in Montrose and get drunk out of our minds! Lost a car that way once. I think it may have rolled off a pier into the North Sea!

[Uncle Buck]

So wine in a box is no good?

Not necessarily. Wineries are putting better stuff in boxes now than in the past. Like everybody else here has been saying, it depends.

[tbn.al]

A few years ago I was introduced to a Washington state winery that makes wine I love, Chateau Ste. Michelle. I pay $7 for the Riesling, $8 for the Merlowe and $10 if I really want to splurge for the Chardonnay. Check 'em out. I like everything they make. You can get up to a $25 bottle but the cheap stuff is really very good.

[ShoelessWes]

I believe that I may have observed that the more places in the world there are that manage to develop palatable wines, the lower the prices of "wines" seem to fall.

My favorite Arkansas wines got WAY cheaper with the introduction of the Australian (sub)$10 bottles, and even cheaper after the Chilean invasion.

[ShoelessWes]

A few of those Wiederkehr wines - to say the least - are quite "surprising"

Indeed. The ones widely sold are very similar to your Vodka/Grape Juice comment.

They do have some nice stuff they do on rotation that they pretty much only sell out of their store.

They had a Cynthiana Wine... it was Cynthiana grape wine that had been aged in oak whiskey barrels that had also been packed with tobacco leaves. It was breathtaking.