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[quote=Russell]Maybe I missed this question in the thread? Has anyone drank wine that they, or a non-expert friend made that was pretty good? How many tries did it take them? How much did they make?

Does anyone like blackberry wine? I just googled it and some review of a Mogen David was very complimentary. Curious, because I planted a bunch of blackberries. They have the potential to produce well the second year.[/quote]

In fact, I did and love it. The local Bevmo in Carmel Mountain Ranch carries a kind of Kosher blackberry wine for ~$4 a bottle. It tastes great to me but might be a bit too sweet for most of the wine snobs here 🙂 I also love the concord grape version, both having at least 40% juice in it so says the labels.

I also love dessert wines. The australian muscat at Costco is very very good.

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[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.

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[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.

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[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.

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[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.

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[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.

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I got a bottle of Chardonnay for $2 at Stater Brothers the other day. You read it right–$2 bucks. On one hand it shows you how cheap I am :); on the other hand, I’m simply no wine snob and am blessed with a nondiscriminating palate. I think we’re the most manipulated generations of human history and the quality difference in wines is mostly marketing.

Try the $2 and $100 wines side by side and tell me if you can tell the difference, or if the difference is worth $98.

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I got a bottle of Chardonnay for $2 at Stater Brothers the other day. You read it right–$2 bucks. On one hand it shows you how cheap I am :); on the other hand, I’m simply no wine snob and am blessed with a nondiscriminating palate. I think we’re the most manipulated generations of human history and the quality difference in wines is mostly marketing.

Try the $2 and $100 wines side by side and tell me if you can tell the difference, or if the difference is worth $98.

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I got a bottle of Chardonnay for $2 at Stater Brothers the other day. You read it right–$2 bucks. On one hand it shows you how cheap I am :); on the other hand, I’m simply no wine snob and am blessed with a nondiscriminating palate. I think we’re the most manipulated generations of human history and the quality difference in wines is mostly marketing.

Try the $2 and $100 wines side by side and tell me if you can tell the difference, or if the difference is worth $98.

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I got a bottle of Chardonnay for $2 at Stater Brothers the other day. You read it right–$2 bucks. On one hand it shows you how cheap I am :); on the other hand, I’m simply no wine snob and am blessed with a nondiscriminating palate. I think we’re the most manipulated generations of human history and the quality difference in wines is mostly marketing.

Try the $2 and $100 wines side by side and tell me if you can tell the difference, or if the difference is worth $98.

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I got a bottle of Chardonnay for $2 at Stater Brothers the other day. You read it right–$2 bucks. On one hand it shows you how cheap I am :); on the other hand, I’m simply no wine snob and am blessed with a nondiscriminating palate. I think we’re the most manipulated generations of human history and the quality difference in wines is mostly marketing.

Try the $2 and $100 wines side by side and tell me if you can tell the difference, or if the difference is worth $98.

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“but there is no place that compares with SD and esp. Pt. Loma!”

The sunshine was great the first few months after we moved here. But now I’m getting sick of the constant sun, which is boring and conveys no sense of the passing of time (maybe that’s why some like it :)). I miss the change of seasons badly.

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“but there is no place that compares with SD and esp. Pt. Loma!”

The sunshine was great the first few months after we moved here. But now I’m getting sick of the constant sun, which is boring and conveys no sense of the passing of time (maybe that’s why some like it :)). I miss the change of seasons badly.

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“but there is no place that compares with SD and esp. Pt. Loma!”

The sunshine was great the first few months after we moved here. But now I’m getting sick of the constant sun, which is boring and conveys no sense of the passing of time (maybe that’s why some like it :)). I miss the change of seasons badly.

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“but there is no place that compares with SD and esp. Pt. Loma!”

The sunshine was great the first few months after we moved here. But now I’m getting sick of the constant sun, which is boring and conveys no sense of the passing of time (maybe that’s why some like it :)). I miss the change of seasons badly.

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