I don’t want to see any whining about the price of wine!! I just got back from Florida last week, and the $5 dollar bottles of wines we buy here are $15-20 there. We’re really spoiled in California to have such easy access to the best wines in the world right here in our own backyard. One of the managers of a restaurant I ate at in FL said they only get 1 case of Rombauer chardonnay a year and it costs them a fortune. Here, I can pick it up at SDWC pretty much any time, except when they run out of course. 😉
Now if you want French wine for cheap, move to France. It blows me away how cheap the wine is there, but of course with the horrible exchange rate, it’s pretty expensive for us Americans to go buy it.