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Posted on 2/2/20 at 12:22 pm to mouton
enough
Posted on 2/2/20 at 12:48 pm to fallguy_1978
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There are plenty of good wines in the $10-15/bottle range. Your average person probably couldn't taste the difference between a lot of those and a $50/bottle in a blind taste test.
I'm far from a wine connoisseur and pretty far from a refined palate, but when I worked in higher end restaurants I was able to taste some really expensive wine and I completely agree with you. Once, a guy left me the last half glass of wine he brought in and told me that it was $2000 a bottle. I figured he was lying and googled it. The cheapest I could find it online was $2200 a bottle.
Anyway, I drank it and I swear I like Camus Pinot better and it's like $25 a bottle. I'll never understand how/why someone would pay $2000 RETAIL for a bottle of wine.
This post was edited on 2/2/20 at 12:50 pm
Posted on 2/2/20 at 1:00 pm to mouton
averaged out over the year probably $10-15/month
Posted on 2/2/20 at 1:01 pm to supadave3
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Anyway, I drank it and I swear I like Camus Pinot better and it's like $25 a bottle. I'll never understand how/why someone would pay $2000 RETAIL for a bottle of wine.
Just showing off or they have money to burn. I've never had a 2k bottle but I've had a few that were a couple of hundred. Once you get above the $6 gut rot I can't taste the difference.
My wife loves this red blend called 7 Moons. It's like $12 and tastes perfectly fine to me.
Posted on 2/2/20 at 1:04 pm to Ingeniero
300 a month except February (280 a month)
Posted on 2/2/20 at 1:06 pm to slackster
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That's alot of wine to for not alot of money. What's your "house" wine?
Costco has a lot of good wines for $10-$15. I have a few I always get but I also try some new ones regularly. They tell you the wine enthusiast rating and I also use an app called Vivino. You take a picture of the label and it gives you a rating and average price and you can read reviews.
Posted on 2/2/20 at 1:10 pm to mouton
$100 for me and the wife. I go through a few cases of beer a month and usually share a few (usually Michelob, Yuengling, or Abita). Wife usually gets one bottle of wine. We might buy one or two glasses or pitchers when we eat out.
Posted on 2/2/20 at 1:11 pm to yellowfin
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I don’t keep track but I drink a lot of wine
Same here. I hardly drink anything but wine anymore. I've started biking on Saturday and Sunday now so my wine intake has reduced. We probably spend $300-$500 a month depending on the occasions.
Posted on 2/2/20 at 1:16 pm to fallguy_1978
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Once you get above the $6 gut rot I can't taste the difference.
Very true. I had a liquor/wine rep tell me one time that most of those $8 wines all come from the same generic vineyards, just label them differently and distribute them through different retailers.
I used the think the $2 buck chuck from Traders Joes was absolutely fine for every night drinking. Would buy several bottles at a time. Of course, I'm an alcoholic and my girlfriend at the time was from Gueydan so it's not like we had very high standards.
This post was edited on 2/2/20 at 1:18 pm
Posted on 2/2/20 at 2:35 pm to BamaAlum02
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and I also use an app called Vivino. You take a picture of the label and it gives you a rating and average price and you can read reviews.
I have this as well and I don’t love it. Most affordable wines are all ranked within a couple fractions of a point of each other and none of the affordable ones are super highly rated.
Posted on 2/2/20 at 3:44 pm to mouton
Just me and the wife. About six hundred a month. Geez! Hurts typing that. We drink cheap as frick stuff
Posted on 2/2/20 at 3:44 pm to supadave3
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my girlfriend at the time was from Gueydan
Where you in Gueydan or did you catch a stray?
Posted on 2/2/20 at 3:47 pm to mouton
$0 lol
Posted on 2/2/20 at 3:59 pm to mouton
$0
Posted on 2/2/20 at 4:01 pm to mouton
$0,
Posted on 2/2/20 at 4:10 pm to LouisianaLady
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affordable
That means different things to different people obviously but you are right. In my dealings you can't find a bottle of elite wine for less than a couple hundred dollars. I have found a "good" bottle of a spicy cabernet sauvignon for sixty bucks. I don't drink like I used too and when I do I drink the good stuff. Maybe the great stuff on anniversaries and what not. Once I tried a bottle of good wine it was impossible to enjoy a bottle of twenty dollar wine after that. You wouldn't think the difference is that large but it is.
Posted on 2/2/20 at 4:13 pm to mouton
$10 or less
Posted on 2/2/20 at 4:15 pm to mouton
Maybe 20 bucks.
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