re: Late Night IM Thread: "Cheap Wine" Edition

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tGOAT cheap stuff is Three Buck Chuck from Trader Joe's and the story behind it is even better. :lol;

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Back ten or fifteen years ago I used to have to travel to Seattle once or twice a month. Back then it was "two buck chuck" and before checked baggage was extra I used to take a carry on, which was all I really needed, plus an empty checked back to fill up with two buck chuck to bring back with me. It was then like Coors used to be when I was a young man ... couldn't find it east of the Mississippi.

Two Buck ... or rather Three Buck Chuck is excellent though. It's probably still my wife's favorite cheapo.

Now, we lived in Italy back in the day and my wife still works for a large multinational Italian company so we occasionally will have some Italians over for dinner when they are in town and we'll serve them thick steaks and cheap Merlots and they always love it.

Italians don't drink that expensive stuff either, not over there ... it's the French who are the wine snobs and people with not enough money who want to look like they have more than they do. Most of them have neither the palate or the nose to even know wtf they are drinking. They rely on price and what the wine store salesman tells them to buy in order to impress.

If you like the Yellowtail, try the Bota Box and the Founders Oak and let me know what you think. Nothing against the Aussies, they make good inexpensive wines.