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MrBlu:
Also, try out that $15 crap that you'd find in a grocery store. The cheap wines are kinda sweet. Merlot, man.

Hat:
Basically if you are developing a taste for wine don't even bother picking up a bottle over 20 dollars (australian) until you have a pretty good knowledge of which wines in that price range are worth drinking and why, because there's just no way you'll be able to effectively wine wank about anything over 20 bucks unless you can figure out exactly why you like certain kinds and why certain others are dogshit.

If you are not planning on actually becoming a wine wanker there is no compelling reason to spend more than 20 dollars on a bottle of wine ever unless you are trying to impress someone, because quite frankly, without the palette for it, you're just wasting your money most of the time anyway.

BrittanyMarie:
I drink cheap wine with the cutest/coolest label that has an actual cork, not that weird ass plastic-y stuff. I am not fancy, I am cheap. Except once I got the Francis Ford Coppola wine just because it was Francis Ford Coppola wine so I cannot fault anyone for getting the Maynard James Keenan wine.

Aimless:
I used to hate wine, but over the past year and a half that's really changed.

The two white wines I most often buy:

- Rudolf Muller's riesling auslese (uhm, just rearrange those words until it's right)

- A sauvignon blanc from Zonnebloem

The former is tasty and really easy to appreciate (ie. to drink :p). The latter is something I often have with my dinner, usually if I've made something with chicken or salmon. It's replaced a chardonnay I used to drink and whose name I've forgotten :(

Wrt reds, I tend to have a box of Killawarra or King Fish at hand, usually to go with dinner, sometimes to go with chocolate :) recently I've grown fond of the admirably CHEAP Monterosso sangiovese, partly because it's really nice with grilled meat and it's summer... and partly because it's hella cheap. Often when I've eaten out and ordered red wine without specifying further, I've gotten one that I can't remember the name of... bloody senile, I am, but I think it's one that's very easy to appreciate for anyone who can stomach red wine.

Not much of a wine-wanker, me, but I've come to understand what it is I like :)

calenlass:
So what I know about wine mostly concerns my preferences.

-White is better than red.
-Chardonnay is the Worst Thing.
-Pinot Grigiot is ok, especially when the only other white is chardonnay.
-Pinot Grigiot is drier, and riesling is sweeter.
-White Zinfandel/rose/blush is ok but I have not found a good brand I guess.
-American wines all have FDA-required preservatives in them that cause more hangovers than the wine itself. I learned that in France.
-Boxed chardonnay will get me drunk faster and more effectively than anything else I have ever drunk.

This one time in Paris I had a blush apertif (or whatever it is) and I never did know what it was called but it was so light and sweet with just a hint of a tang/dryness. I wish I could find it again. It was so great.

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