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Originally Posted by RPKESQ
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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.
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you also left out the extreme labor costs for a top wine - besides trimming the vines & dropping fruit, some top Bordeaux houses actually put ALL the grape clusters on sorting tables and instead of removing the worst grapes, go thru and individually pick out only the very best grapes for their wine. I'm told they use Arab labor for this BTW.
You can always find a reasonable wine for a fairly low price to make your dinner more tasty. That is not the same as find a really tasty wine and some food to enhance the wine...