wines

The most exciting wines being made today, the most radical guys, in search of true terroir, are making wines that are not that expensive.

Living in London, I noticed that cheap wines (5-10£) are truly awful and it's almost impossible to find good cheap wines.

In Australia (Where red wine snobs like myself abound) the best local wines are usually around the $20 mark.

The weird thing with wines is there's no consensus in blind tastings as to what constitutes a superior wine.

The market over there is saturated with Omegas and Audis and cases of fancy French wines.

In Ontario, the largest province, foreign wines can only be sold at government run liquor stores.

A guy took soil and climate data and ran the it against the most expensive wines.

There are a lot of wines that have marked me and my taste, and most of them are not expensive.

The thing about most wines is that if they aren't a blend they don't taste the same harvest to harvest.

The author claims that being able to distinguish expensive wines from cheap ones simply means that a person has developed an arbitrary preference drive by the wine industry.

Being a connoisseur of fine wines or whiskey is something many people consider sophisticated.

I guess I am lucky in that I can find at least a few wines I like under $20.

Can we even discern a "deeper understanding" if that means liking/disliking wines at random?

We also have a tier system where only the best selling wines remain in "tier 1" (every shop).

Personally if I taste more than 4 or 5 wines at at time my palate gets "tired" and my opinion of the wine becomes very different to what I think of it after tasting it on its own.

One example from the book SuperCrunchers involves Vintage Wines.

This article is the contrary of everything I believe about wine:-) In Italy with 15 euro a bottle you can purchase one of the Italian Great Wines, not an everyday wine, like a bottle of Siant Michel Appian or similar very very good wine.