Best tasting economy wine? - Page 3

DeezNuts · #21 05-05-2005, 01:53 AM

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I'd agree with this if I didn't drink like 5 bottles a week.

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Agreed. The inexpensive wine market is only getting stronger and better. I don't want to be paying $15+ a pop for something I drink every night. I'll definitely ante up when I go to a restaurant, but when I'm at home watching TV in my sweats, I don't find much value in spending too much for an expensive wine when there are some pretty tasty cheap ones.

Trader Joe's has a great selection besides Charles Shaw under $10 and even $5.

DN

IndieMatty · #22 05-05-2005, 01:57 AM

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I'd agree with this if I didn't drink like 5 bottles a week.

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Agreed. The inexpensive wine market is only getting stronger and better. I don't want to be paying $15+ a pop for something I drink every night. I'll definitely ante up when I go to a restaurant, but when I'm at home watching TV in my sweats, I don't find much value in spending too much for an expensive wine when there are some pretty tasty cheap ones.

Trader Joe's has a great selection besides Charles Shaw under $10 and even $5.

DN

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Agreed. I like to mix it up though. Big fan of Mondavi's selections. NolanFan is a big wine guy, he'll have some great input in this thread.

Rick Nebiolo · #23 05-05-2005, 02:26 AM

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Please share the best tasting economy wine/champagne (<$10) you know of that can be found at Safeway, Rosauer's, etc..

with a small sample size, mine is Sutter Home- Moscato

~Reef

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Good thread, good ideas, and I can get to a Trader Joes [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].

Over my now getting long life I've encountered many people who will often spend quite a bit on one bottle of wine while keeping nearly the cheapest whisky, bourbon, scotch and so on for guests.

It doesn't add up, a bottle of hard liquor should last a while, and the expenive within reason stuff is usually much better. OTOH, is a fifty dollar bottle of wine really that much better than a well-chosen ten dollar bottle? This assumes money matters, after playing the no limit games sometimes I wonder if it does to some people.

Maybe this has been discussed elsewhere but is it true that comments made in the movie Sideways caused Merlot sales to decline?

~ Rick

Piz0wn0reD!!!!!! · #24 05-05-2005, 02:27 AM

charles shaw. 3$ a bottle. I think thats local only tho.

Chobohoya · #25 05-05-2005, 02:27 AM

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Best tasting economy wine?

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After that, let's all post which race of women has the tastiest poop.

NT

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Brazilian.

Chobohoya · #26 05-05-2005, 02:28 AM

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Anything Yellowtail.

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Agreed. I would go with the Shiraz.

YourFoxyGrandma · #27 05-05-2005, 02:34 AM

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Boone's

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rmarotti · #28 05-05-2005, 02:55 AM

Worst. Answer. Ever.

rmarotti · #29 05-05-2005, 02:58 AM

Norton Malbec. Anything by Echelon (they have a few <10.) Anything but Charles Shaw or Yellowtail.

DeezNuts · #30 05-05-2005, 03:52 AM

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Maybe this has been discussed elsewhere but is it true that comments made in the movie Sideways caused Merlot sales to decline?

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I heard the same, and that the movie caused Pinot Noir sales to increase. But this is just offhand information that I read somewhere on the internet.

I'll admit I'm a lemming because after seeing the movie, I started to buy Pinot(since I was a newbie wine drinker with no idea what was good and couldn't tell the difference anyways). But in tasting different wines along the way, I have found that there is nothing I like better than a good red Zinfandel and have stopped buying Pinot. I suspect the sales boost was temporary.

DN