Brian Palmer has an interesting piece in Slate making the case for cheap wine.
What secret gremlin demanded of Vanda that she drank, each day, four bottles of cheap wine?
The appearance of such cheap wine in America, however, is something new, made possible by an unprecedented oversupply of grapes in California.
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Rumors and speculation are to reporters what tar heroin and cheap wine are to dude who lives in the alley behind your local 7-11.
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Many of its people drink cheap homemade wine, vodka and other spirits.
I'll rarely start with a cheap sparkling wine, as it seems like too great a leap to the second, inevitably much better, bottle.
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In Chile, navegado is made by first caramelizing sugar in the bottom of a pot, adding a box of cheap red wine (even boxed wine in Chile is tasty), and then simmering it with some cinnamon sticks, cloves and orange slices.
Now it boasts three divisions--ferries, ports and logistics, although most U.K. landlubbers know it solely as a means of doing a "booze cruise"--loading up a hired van with cheap beer and wine from French supermarkets for the festive season.
Why would someone want to cover their wine with a bunch of plastic beads unless the label was ugly or the wine was cheap?
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Nor as cheap as U.S. wine and beer giant Constellation Brands ( STZ).
These wines helped cement the image of Aussie Shiraz as a wine that was cheerful and cheap.
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The cheap Salvadoran bodegas in Columbia Heights are also mixing with upmarket wine bars, such as Maple, where hot young things eat delicate servings of pasta on a reclaimed wood bar.
Beer and wine are also available, with the popular choice being cheap cans of Rio Bravo lined with salt and lime.
The latter was actually the preferred location of a late wine writer and friend of mine who "stored" everything from cheap Cabernet to first-growth Bordeaux along the edges of his living-room rug.
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