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Originally Posted by Burnin' oil
Good wine is good and bad wine is bad. Expensive wine may be good or it may be bad. Inexpensive wine may be good or it may be bad.
When my wife and I go wine tasting, probably 1 out of ten wineries offers something that stands out, regardless of price.
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Absolutely true.
The price of a wine has little to do with actual quality. But there is no such thing as great wine for "cheap". Cheap being a relative term. To produce a great wine takes a great season, good grape stock, proper processing, possible proper aging dependent on type, proper bottling, proper storage, and proper serving.
Not up to any of that? Then drink Two Buck Chuck and be happy in your bliss, go forth and multiply.
Wine, like many things in life, takes some education to appreciate its complexity and subtleness. Like a Lobb shoe or a Fabbri shotgun it is wasted on the clueless.
It does not make a person better than another to be knowledgeable about wine, but it does increase the the value one places on human achievement. A great winemaker is among the pinnacle of human endeavors.