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May 28, 2010 at 2:18 PM #556950May 28, 2010 at 2:29 PM #555996
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Participant[quote=scaredycat]”alcohol is an acquired taste, so try to acquire a taste for the cheap stuff”….
somewhat OT from the OT of this thread, but apolitical, is the question of why Temecula wines are so high. I WANT to buy temecula wines but just cannot because theya re too expensive. i can get great stuff from EUROPE cheaper than temecula. what’s up with that? is it real estate prices?[/quote]
hahaa, my thinking exactly. If a person was told from the beginning that the $2/bottle taste was the best, then that $2-wine would be selling for $100 a bottle and vice versa now.
May 28, 2010 at 2:29 PM #556098Participant[quote=scaredycat]”alcohol is an acquired taste, so try to acquire a taste for the cheap stuff”….
somewhat OT from the OT of this thread, but apolitical, is the question of why Temecula wines are so high. I WANT to buy temecula wines but just cannot because theya re too expensive. i can get great stuff from EUROPE cheaper than temecula. what’s up with that? is it real estate prices?[/quote]
hahaa, my thinking exactly. If a person was told from the beginning that the $2/bottle taste was the best, then that $2-wine would be selling for $100 a bottle and vice versa now.
May 28, 2010 at 2:29 PM #556587Participant[quote=scaredycat]”alcohol is an acquired taste, so try to acquire a taste for the cheap stuff”….
somewhat OT from the OT of this thread, but apolitical, is the question of why Temecula wines are so high. I WANT to buy temecula wines but just cannot because theya re too expensive. i can get great stuff from EUROPE cheaper than temecula. what’s up with that? is it real estate prices?[/quote]
hahaa, my thinking exactly. If a person was told from the beginning that the $2/bottle taste was the best, then that $2-wine would be selling for $100 a bottle and vice versa now.
May 28, 2010 at 2:29 PM #556688Participant[quote=scaredycat]”alcohol is an acquired taste, so try to acquire a taste for the cheap stuff”….
somewhat OT from the OT of this thread, but apolitical, is the question of why Temecula wines are so high. I WANT to buy temecula wines but just cannot because theya re too expensive. i can get great stuff from EUROPE cheaper than temecula. what’s up with that? is it real estate prices?[/quote]
hahaa, my thinking exactly. If a person was told from the beginning that the $2/bottle taste was the best, then that $2-wine would be selling for $100 a bottle and vice versa now.
May 28, 2010 at 2:29 PM #556964Participant[quote=scaredycat]”alcohol is an acquired taste, so try to acquire a taste for the cheap stuff”….
somewhat OT from the OT of this thread, but apolitical, is the question of why Temecula wines are so high. I WANT to buy temecula wines but just cannot because theya re too expensive. i can get great stuff from EUROPE cheaper than temecula. what’s up with that? is it real estate prices?[/quote]
hahaa, my thinking exactly. If a person was told from the beginning that the $2/bottle taste was the best, then that $2-wine would be selling for $100 a bottle and vice versa now.
May 28, 2010 at 3:55 PM #556094sdrealtor
Participantsorry, not true. Great wine evokes things that cheap wine never could.
May 28, 2010 at 3:55 PM #556198Participantsorry, not true. Great wine evokes things that cheap wine never could.
May 28, 2010 at 3:55 PM #556686Participantsorry, not true. Great wine evokes things that cheap wine never could.
May 28, 2010 at 3:55 PM #556785Participantsorry, not true. Great wine evokes things that cheap wine never could.
May 28, 2010 at 3:55 PM #557062Participantsorry, not true. Great wine evokes things that cheap wine never could.
May 28, 2010 at 4:47 PM #556152Eugene
Participant[quote=nocommonsense]
hahaa, my thinking exactly. If a person was told from the beginning that the $2/bottle taste was the best, then that $2-wine would be selling for $100 a bottle and vice versa now.[/quote]$2 wine is made from inferior grapes. Just the the grapes that go into a middling bottle of Merlot cost more than $2. If TJ or Stater Brothers can make profit on $2 wine, they are getting surplus grapes which are sold at a big discount, most likely because they are “off” in some way. Maybe the acidity is off. Maybe they didn’t ripen enough, and the winemaker has to add sugar or HFCS to get to 13%.
Now, if we’re to compare $10 wine against $100 wine, that is a different story.
A bigger problem IMO is that people are taught that there are only a few “true” styles of wine. And everything else is carried only by specialty shops in low volume. You’re asked to sense subtle differences between $10 Merlot and $100 Merlot, or between different kinds of Riesling, but I bet that half of you have never even tasted, say, Barbera, or Orange Muscat, or any kind of red dessert wine.
May 28, 2010 at 4:47 PM #556254Participant[quote=nocommonsense]
hahaa, my thinking exactly. If a person was told from the beginning that the $2/bottle taste was the best, then that $2-wine would be selling for $100 a bottle and vice versa now.[/quote]$2 wine is made from inferior grapes. Just the the grapes that go into a middling bottle of Merlot cost more than $2. If TJ or Stater Brothers can make profit on $2 wine, they are getting surplus grapes which are sold at a big discount, most likely because they are “off” in some way. Maybe the acidity is off. Maybe they didn’t ripen enough, and the winemaker has to add sugar or HFCS to get to 13%.
Now, if we’re to compare $10 wine against $100 wine, that is a different story.
A bigger problem IMO is that people are taught that there are only a few “true” styles of wine. And everything else is carried only by specialty shops in low volume. You’re asked to sense subtle differences between $10 Merlot and $100 Merlot, or between different kinds of Riesling, but I bet that half of you have never even tasted, say, Barbera, or Orange Muscat, or any kind of red dessert wine.
May 28, 2010 at 4:47 PM #556743Participant[quote=nocommonsense]
hahaa, my thinking exactly. If a person was told from the beginning that the $2/bottle taste was the best, then that $2-wine would be selling for $100 a bottle and vice versa now.[/quote]$2 wine is made from inferior grapes. Just the the grapes that go into a middling bottle of Merlot cost more than $2. If TJ or Stater Brothers can make profit on $2 wine, they are getting surplus grapes which are sold at a big discount, most likely because they are “off” in some way. Maybe the acidity is off. Maybe they didn’t ripen enough, and the winemaker has to add sugar or HFCS to get to 13%.
Now, if we’re to compare $10 wine against $100 wine, that is a different story.
A bigger problem IMO is that people are taught that there are only a few “true” styles of wine. And everything else is carried only by specialty shops in low volume. You’re asked to sense subtle differences between $10 Merlot and $100 Merlot, or between different kinds of Riesling, but I bet that half of you have never even tasted, say, Barbera, or Orange Muscat, or any kind of red dessert wine.
May 28, 2010 at 4:47 PM #556842Participant[quote=nocommonsense]
hahaa, my thinking exactly. If a person was told from the beginning that the $2/bottle taste was the best, then that $2-wine would be selling for $100 a bottle and vice versa now.[/quote]$2 wine is made from inferior grapes. Just the the grapes that go into a middling bottle of Merlot cost more than $2. If TJ or Stater Brothers can make profit on $2 wine, they are getting surplus grapes which are sold at a big discount, most likely because they are “off” in some way. Maybe the acidity is off. Maybe they didn’t ripen enough, and the winemaker has to add sugar or HFCS to get to 13%.
Now, if we’re to compare $10 wine against $100 wine, that is a different story.
A bigger problem IMO is that people are taught that there are only a few “true” styles of wine. And everything else is carried only by specialty shops in low volume. You’re asked to sense subtle differences between $10 Merlot and $100 Merlot, or between different kinds of Riesling, but I bet that half of you have never even tasted, say, Barbera, or Orange Muscat, or any kind of red dessert wine.
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