DaleW wrote:

> Scary prices. Widely available around here at $5.87 to $7. Never a
> world beater, but at that price a solid buy- great for parties, and
> has a label that Betsy knows- fair game for cooking wine.

Oops!! This exchange encouraged me to do what I should have done in the
first place: check labels on Cellartracker (great resource, that). What
I actually bought and drank was the Crianza (I noted that on the label
but figured that they all were), which does see more oak than the
regular bottling. That may explain the higher price, as Sam's isn't
usually that different from NYC pricing. I don't know if Larry did the
same, but my wine has the orange label rather than the funky brown one.
Ironically, this means that I've now had the Tres Picos and Crianza,
but not the lower level bottling.

Sorry about the confusion,
Mark Lipton
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