$10 wine

$10 wine is more than a price – it’s a style of wine that is consumer friendly, well made, and offers value. Equally as important, $10 wine isn’t associated with any of the winespeak, score-driven attitude that affects so much of the U.S. wine business. A $10 wine is honest and made for people to drink, not for reviewers to gush over. It’s about enjoyment, not pretense, Tuesday night Chinese takeout instead of $300 nouvelle cuisine. In addition, not all wine that costs $10 qualifies as $10 wine. Too many producers put a cute label on inferior wine and hope that the label makes up the difference, marketing wine like toothpaste or laundry detergent.

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• Wine of the week: Domaine du Tariquet Classic 2011

  
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  My mom enjoys a glass of wine now and then, and I’d like to think that I’ve helped her with that. She reads the blog, and is better informed when she walks into a liquor store to buy a bottle. Which is one of the reasons why the Tariquet ($10, purchased , 11.5%) is the wine of the week with Mother’s Day ...
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• On the road with Bieler, Smith and Gott

  
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  The wine world has changed, and for the better. How does the Wine Curmudgeon know this? Three of the best winemakers in the U.S. -- all youngish, all talented, and all with top-notch cheap wine -- did a media extravaganza in Dallas. Thats not an everyday ocurrence for people who make inexpensive wine, and especially ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wine of the week: Domaine de Cabasse Les Deux Anges 2009

  
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  Rhone wines remain a mystery to most American wine drinkers, and not just because they have very French names and are often difficult to find on store shelves. It’s also because they’re made with grapes that aren’t cabernet sauvignon and merlot; for most of us, that difference is enough so we’ll buy something ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kickstarter, wine writing, and a Cheap Wine Book update

  
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  The Wine Curmudgeon has been remiss in updating the cyber-ether on the progress of the Cheap Wine book , which was scheduled to appear sometime in the next six or eight weeks. Thats not going to happen; call it the vicissitudes of book writing in the 21st century. How was I to know the city of Dallas was going to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Wine of the week: Cune Rioja Blanco 2010

  
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  How much did I like this wine? I bought another white from the same producer that cost a couple of bucks more, and I didn’t even have to think twice about it. Just picked it up and put it in the cart. That doesn’t happen very often; if a wine costs more than $10, I’m often seen mumbling to myself in front of the ...
  4 weeks ago

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