One thing you wrote made me curious: That good wine box -- will a wine box from another batch also impress as much? I assume one of the problems with the cheap stuff is the std deviation values?
I might add that I got a Moldovan 2 bucks wine in a PET bottle this week and quite liked it. :-)
(I prefer dry red Spanish that you almost have to chew (I think the English term i s "rich"?). I should probably just admit defeat and replace the wine with a bit of vodka in espresso. :-) )
Edit: Hmm, I guess the cheap stuff is blended in giant volumes and hence consistent? Thanks for the information, lisper. I should try to widen my experience.
Actually one of the nice things about the mass-produced "plonk" is that it is very consistent. One bottle of Barefoot cab will taste pretty much the same as another, whereas with more expensive wines you get a lot more variation, particularly from year to year. (Wine snobs consider this a feature!)
> vodka in espresso
Whatever works! My wife likes vanilla vodka with olives, and raspberry martinis with a dash of tabasco. But I love her anyway :-)
Barefoot and other mass produced wines are chemically treated. This is why they always taste the same. Variation from year to year is actually a good sign that what you're tasting is not just chemical flavoring.
I might add that I got a Moldovan 2 bucks wine in a PET bottle this week and quite liked it. :-)
(I prefer dry red Spanish that you almost have to chew (I think the English term i s "rich"?). I should probably just admit defeat and replace the wine with a bit of vodka in espresso. :-) )
Edit: Hmm, I guess the cheap stuff is blended in giant volumes and hence consistent? Thanks for the information, lisper. I should try to widen my experience.