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Cheap wine, also sometimes called table wine, is wine that is fun to drink without the price tag. Cheap wine used to be hard to come by, but thanks to the popularity of wine around the world, cheap wine is not only good it’s cheap.
There are loads of great websites like Cheap Wine Finder and Wine Spies that teach you the tricks of spotting a good cheap wine and highlight wines that are great tasting and economically priced. Thankfully the explosion of wine around the world from California Wines to Australian Wines has made the selection of cheap wines infinitely large. This means that although most people think of Two Buck Chuck when they think cheap wine, there are actually millions of great bottles to choose from.
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$10 Hall of Fame preview
The Wine Curmudgeon —
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The Wine Curmudgeon is checking notes, re-tasting wine, and getting ready for the appearance of the eighth annual $10 Wine Hall of Fame . Ill post it on Jan. 4. But there is already one piece of sad news. Osborne Solaz , the Spanish red blend that has been a mainstay of the Hall since its inception, is being phased ...2 days ago -
Wine of the week: Casteller Brut Rosé NV
The Wine Curmudgeon —
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The Wine Curmudgeon, as is well known , is a huge fan of Spanish sparkling wine, known as cava . In fact, my enthusiasm for cava, and especially Cristalino, annoys more than a few retailers of my acquaintance. One of them, in fact, insisted that the Casteller cava (about $10, purchased ) was so much better than ...4 days ago -
The frugal wine drinkers
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So how do you cope with an economy that is still quite a ways away from a real rebound and a job market thats also in the toilet? Well, you certainly dont stop drinking; you just drink cheaper booze. Thats whats happening with wine, at least, according to an AP story that was in Fridays Sun-Times. "More wine ...1 week ago -
World Drowning in Cheap Wine Because of US Recession?
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Food & wine | US demand for cheap wine buoys global market | Seattle Times Newspaper PARIS — Is the world drowning its sorrows in cheap wine? An industry group said Thursday that more wine could be consumed globally this...1 week ago -
Mini-reviews 8: Beaujolais nouveau, Pomelo, Wily Jack, Las Perdices
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Reviews of wines that don’t need their own post, but are worth noting for one reason or another. Look for it on the final weekday of each month. · Georges DuBoeuf Beaujolais Nouveau 2009 ($12, purchased ): The Wine Curmudgeon, disappointed with the continuing decline in quality of the Nouveau, has stopped ...1 week ago -
12 Under $20: Red
Bigger Than Your Head —
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As promised. _____________________________________________________________________________________ No need to make a big deal about the Melini Chianti Borghi d’Elsa 2008, Toscana. It’s a quaffable little trattoria wine, bright, fresh and fruity and decently spicy with galloping acidity to jazz up the red and ...2 weeks ago -
Kyle MachLachlan has his own winery and offers his best wine choices for Thanksgiving
Desperate Blog —
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Harry Smith from CBS’s “Early Show” tasted wines with Orso — er — Kyle MachLachlan and learned about Orson’s — er — Kyle’s winery “Pursued by Bear,” named for a Shakespearean stage direction in “The Winter’s Tale.” OK, listen. I rightfully work under the assumption that most of the ...2 weeks ago -
Wine review: Yosemite Road Chardonnay NV
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The Wine Curmudgeon really, really wanted to like this wine, which is one of the two, new $4 private label wines from 7-Eleven . But, unfortunately, it tastes like $4 wine. This means the Yosemite Road ( purchased ) doesnt have enough varietal character -- the green apple and pear flavors that chardonnay is supposed ...3 weeks ago -
Blue Condition - Cheap Wine (Catfood Records)
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It was a beautiful day here in Austin, so there was hope that maybe the new five song EP from the Dallas and Austin split quintet Blue Condition would provide a short soundtrack for a quick drive around town. Sadly, the only way Cheap Wine could become some sort of road trip soundtrack for this reviewer was if it ...3 weeks ago -
O.K., Cheese Toast Doesn’t Have to Have a $45 Pinot!
Bigger Than Your Head —
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My constant reader and responder-to-posts Thomas Pellechia, author of the blog vinofictions , had a reasonable point when he said to me, in an email, after I described, on Oct. 23 , a $45 bottle of Elodian Pinot Noir that I sampled with a plate of cheese toast: The post popped a thought into my head. I wondered ...3 weeks ago -
Good Cheap Wine
Carrie and Danielle —
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There are so many options when it comes to some great wines with a very modest price point. Though this wasn’t always the case in the past but it is today as there are a lot of improvements in wine and the wine growing areas. This has equaled an increased wine availability at much more reasonable costs. There really ...3 weeks ago -
12 Under $20: White
Bigger Than Your Head —
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That’s the theme: 12 white wines priced under $20. I think that needs no elaboration. And we are trying to be diverse. Two rieslings at different prices, two sauvignon blancs at different prices, wines from Spain, Argentina, Western Australia, California, Washington. Soon, maybe not tomorrow but soon, comes “12 ...4 weeks ago -
7-Eleven gets into the $4 wine business
The Wine Curmudgeon —
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The news this week that the convenience store chain was launching a $4 wine brand called Yosemite Road sent chills of excitement through the Wine Curmudgeon. Finally, there was a Two Buck Chuck equivalent that I could buy at a store just three blocks from my house. Not so fast, cheap wine breath. Turns out ...4 weeks ago -
Update: "$10 wine is the new $100 wine"
The Wine Curmudgeon —
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The recession continues to pummel the wine business. Or, as wine business consultant Christian Miller of Full Glass Research told me recently: "I dont think the wine business is in denial. The differences have been too dramatic." At the beginning of the year , I wrote that that experts who predicted a mild ...4 weeks ago -
Verge LA 2009 – Speaker Topics Part II
Dream Awakener —
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With Verge LA right around the corner, I will be posting some of the topics that various speakers will tackle, everyday until the event. The basic theme of this gathering is looking at what it means to be missional in imaginative ways. Verge LA is where the next BIG idea meets UNconference. Check out this Verge LA ...4 weeks ago -
Mini-reviews 7: le Freynelle, White Hall, Rex Goliath, Beaujolais
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· Chateau la Freynelle 2007 ($15, purchased ): This white Bordeaux has a bit more citrus than in the old days, but the minerality is there, and the semillion adds a nice, rich touch. · White Hall Vineyards Viognier 2008 ($17, sample ): Virginia winemakers continue to impress with viognier, and this wine ...5 weeks ago -
Wine of the week: Melini Chianti Borghi dElsa 2008
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Much has changed in the wine world over the last 70 years. This wine is not one of them. Do you want an old-fashioned, "this is the way Italy used to make cheap wine" wine? Then look for the dElsa (about $10, sample ). My Italian wine expert tells me that Melini has been exporting this wine to the United States ...5 weeks ago
