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    From poindexter FORTRAN to All on Saturday, January 09, 2021 07:47:00
    I've always thought anyone could spend $75 and come up with a good bottle of wine, but who can do so for $10 or less?

    Finding a great, cheap wine has been like a treasure hunt over the years. While I've been fortunate to drink some pretty amazing wines in my life, the ones that stick out in my mind are the shockingly good cheap ones.

    We have a chain of stores called Grocery Outlets that have been good over
    the years at finding good cheap wines, and a couple of great ones. Usually wineries you'd never heard from, or a generic-sounding winery with corks labeled from a much more expensive winery, expensive wines that may have
    been treated poorly (look for the puffy corks, a sign that the wine had
    gotten hot in storage)

    Friends of mine would go out, buy one each of a handful of wines, taste them in the parking lot, find the excellent one, and go buy a case.

    I usually just look to see what other people are buying and take their hint.

    One of the latest wines we found there was a brand called "Drops of
    Jupiter", owned by one of the guys in the band Train. A nice, drinkable Zin for $6.99.

    Any cheap favorites of yours out there?


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  • From jack phlash@10:102/7 to poindexter FORTRAN on Monday, January 11, 2021 11:01:18
    on 09 Jan 2021, poindexter FORTRAN said...

    Friends of mine would go out, buy one each of a handful of wines, taste them in the parking lot, find the excellent one, and go buy a case.

    That's amazing.

    Any cheap favorites of yours out there?

    I'm often buying in the $10-20 range. If you'd ask me that 5 years ago I
    could have given you several recommendations. Lately I'm always trying something new though, especially since I'm on the west coast now and there are so many excellent wines from CA, OR, and WA that I rarely found back east.

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  • From bobrob@10:103/13 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thursday, January 14, 2021 18:01:57
    Finding a great, cheap wine has been like a treasure hunt over the
    years. While I've been fortunate to drink some pretty amazing wines in
    my life, the ones that stick out in my mind are the shockingly good
    cheap ones.

    The only truly inexpensive domestic I've enjoyed is Novy Family, the sub-label from Siduri. Good stuff for around $10-12 each.

    I've found some amazing old world / french wines for that price point that taste like they should cost way more then they do. Wines from Alsace are both excellent, and very affordable. Cremant (sparkling wine from the region) and Riesling can be amazing.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN to jack phlash on Tuesday, January 12, 2021 08:27:00
    jack phlash wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    I'm often buying in the $10-20 range. If you'd ask me that 5 years ago
    I could have given you several recommendations. Lately I'm always
    trying something new though, especially since I'm on the west coast now and there are so many excellent wines from CA, OR, and WA that I rarely found back east.

    When I went to England the last time, I was looking forward to trying some
    of their cheap French wines; humored by the *very* expensive NAPA wines from vineyards I'd never heard of, nowhere near Napa. Wineries in Bakersfield?


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