I almost slipped!

[MoonCat]

My biggest problem with wines is they taste so bitter. Even ice wines, although not bad, taste a little bitter.

Good ones shouldn't. There's a place here that bottles their own ice cider wine...it's yummy...

[fma_fanatic]

Interrupting Cow: (Moo!)

Out of all that, this little bit made me bust out laughing.

Why yes, I am easily amused. Why do you ask?

[Pagan]

Well there's always "Two-Buck Chuck!"

Disclaimer: I don't like chardonnay so I don't drink that, but it's supposed to be good.

It is. In fact, all of the "Two-Buck Chuck" (even though it's not $2 anymore) is good, including the Beaujolais Nouveau.

My biggest problem with wines is they taste so bitter. Even ice wines, although not bad, taste a little bitter.

I got hold of a late-harvest eiswein once. Set my teeth on edge it was so damned sweet. Then again, I can't stand sweet wine. The drier, the better.

[thansal]

My biggest problem with wines is they taste so bitter. Even ice wines, although not bad, taste a little bitter.

You and me both.

The tannin in wine is what makes me not drink it, thus your sweet whites are not so bad for me (still not going to drink it if I have a choice). The tannin simply over powers every other flavor in just about every red I have had (baring manischewitz and the like:P).

[Jay Fear]

Australia is the solution to his problems, wine is cheap and abundant here, but of relatively good quality. If you want expensive plonk, the option's there, but you can nab some really solid merlot or shiraz for $6 - 10. In a bottle even!

[protege]

Seconded. Australia's Yellow Tail, and Fish Eye are a couple of my favorites

[Ben_Who]

I know zero about wine, and even I'm not sure I'd trust any bottle under $10. First time I ever bought wine was on a fast-food salary, so I wound up with the cheapest plonk in the supermarket. Two sips and the rest went down the sink.

A few years later at my cousin's wedding, there was a bottle of this same plonk on every table for the toasts at the reception. My brother-in-law took one sip, gagged, whispered "My, that's dry" with a tear rolling down his cheek, and didn't touch it again. So I know it wasn't just me.

I want to see the OP complainant go Cadillac shopping. "I want an Escalade, but I only want to pay as much as I would for a Honda Civic. ... And I only want to pay $1.25 per gallon in gasoline."

Love, Who?

[Pagan]

I know zero about wine, and even I'm not sure I'd trust any bottle under $10. First time I ever bought wine was on a fast-food salary, so I wound up with the cheapest plonk in the supermarket. Two sips and the rest went down the sink.

There's loads of wine out there under $10 that really good. There's also a lot of wine out there that's really expensive and tastes horrible. Price is no indication of how good it is.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Do they still make Thunderbird? I'm just curious.

[draco664]

They were complaining that they couldn't get cheap wine? Wow, entitlement much??

No, they were complaining that they couldn't get their expensive wine cheaply. There is a difference, but one that ranks them even higher on the entitlement whore scale.

A few years later at my cousin's wedding, there was a bottle of this same plonk on every table for the toasts at the reception. My brother-in-law took one sip, gagged, whispered "My, that's dry" with a tear rolling down his cheek, and didn't touch it again. So I know it wasn't just me.

I don't drink wine, but I have a cool wine story about my wedding.

My mother used to work for a company that was started by a millionaire wine buff. He was great to work for, and morale was high. He would get *crates* of wine delivered to the office on a regular basis. He built a house near a hill so he could hollow said hill out for his cellar.

He sold the business.

Years later, the business moved offices. In moving the bookshelves, a room was discovered that had people scratching their heads. No one knew it was there.

It contained boxes with eight dozen bottles of wine.

Woohoo, the managers thought. There's 8 of us, that's an even dozen bottles each. And as my mum was a manager, she scored twelve bottles.

Fast forward a few months to my wedding. She donated the bottles for the reception. I had no idea, all I saw at the reception was the bottles spread around the tables.

One of my friends, who is also a wine buff, took one look at the label and his eyes *bulged*. He wanted to know where I got them. I told him I had no idea. He spent quite a bit of the reception trying to find out who had brought the wines.

At the end of the night, I discovered it was mum. I pointed my friend to her, and he offered to buy any remaining bottles. The following conversation is pretty much verbatim. It stuck in my memory for some reason.

Friend: Do you have any bottles left? I'll buy them from you.
Mum: Sorry, no. I brought them down for the wedding.
Friend: Can you get any more? I'll pay *A THOUSAND DOLLARS* for a bottle.
Mum: (The sort of expression that Napoleon gave when told he'd come second at Waterloo)

Keep in mind that this was ten years ago...

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Seconded. Australia's Yellow Tail, and Fish Eye are a couple of my favorites

Send a bottle of Yellow Tail down this way, will ya? I don't care which varietal - they're all good.

Usually these days I'll spring for the $17 box of Franzia Chardonnay 5 ltr (which will last about a month) if I can't find my Yellow Tail on sale.

Now if my wallet's a little tight, there's always Lucky Duck Chardonnay (sold exclusively at Wally World) for $3.99/ 750ml bottle.

Or I can have my sister run me to Aldi's for a bottle of Winking Owl wine for $2.99/bottle.

[XCashier]

Do they still make Thunderbird? I'm just curious.

According to Google, it's still sold. I found out about it from a funny Cracked article.

[Teefies2]

[QUOTE=DGoddessChardonnay;910497]
Usually these days I'll spring for the $17 box of Franzia Chardonnay 5 ltr (which will last about a month) if I can't find my Yellow Tail on sale.

To me, Franzia is THE best of the cheap wines! And their Sunset Blush runs about $12 for the 5 ltr, so you might try that one as well :-)

[EricKei]

Waaaaaay back to the OP -- I smell a rat. Either this guy was trying to get you to discount half the store....FOR HIM...so that he could fill up his wine cellar cheaply, or he was a reseller trying to make major bucks who knows damn well what the margins are on wine.

As for inexpensive-but-good? My brother used to swear by a brand called "Cheap Red Wine" back in the 90s. I dunno if it still exists. Note that he was under no illusions about the relative quality level of $10 & under/bottle wine He just said that it still tasted really, really good.

[Dreamstalker]

There's a very local wine/liquor 'superstore' whose tagline is "everything 20% off". I haven't actually been in there to see how true it is, but their commercials are amusing (featuring two students who don't even look old enough to legally drink happily comparing vodkas).