• Wine 1: 2000 Chassagne-Montrachet, 'Les Chaumées', 1er Cru, Domaine Michel Niellon
• Wine 2: 2000 Puligny-Montrachet, 'Les Pucelles', 1er Cru, Domaine Leflaive
• Wine 3: 2000 Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet, Grand Cru, Domaine Belland
• Wine 4: 1999 Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet, Grand Cru, Etienne Sauzet
• Wine 5: 1988 Bâtard-Montrachet, Grand Cru, Domaine Leflaive
• Wine 6: 1999 Chevalier-Montrachet, 'Les Demoiselles', Grand Cru, Louis Latour
• Wine 7: 1996 Chevalier-Montrachet, Grand Cru, Domaine Leflaive
• Wine 8: 1999 Le Montrachet, Grand Cru, Marquis de Laguiche, Joseph Drouhin
What can I say. I could say they were superb, elegant, etc. but I would be
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I wonder what you would think of Charles Shaw wines. Out here we call it "Two Buck Chuck."
It's gotten some good reviews, considering the low price. Mostly, "a good wine, but don't bring it to a party because everybody knows how cheap it is" kind of reviews.
It is not just the price but the drinkability. The local Locorotondo white from the producers co-operative http://www.locorotondodoc.com/ is only five euros (USD 6) and very acceptable drinking but I wouldn't touch their jug wine.
In europe most of the cost of a bottle goes in duty and tax (I guess in the US too). So a small move up the price scale leaves the producer proportionately much, much more to put into the quality. To make drinkable wine at the low price end needs some luck, talent or shrewd business deals.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4901290-108294,00.html
Mary's motto - Life is too short to drink bad wine.
I'm no connoisseur, but I think the $2 wine tastes as good as wine on which we've spent at least $8. We've certainly spent more than that on wine we didn't like at all.
Too bad we can't get you a bottle to try out!
Hubby's motto: "If it tastes good and only costs two bucks, I'll take two cases!"
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