In article >,
Mark Lipton > wrote:

> 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

As you clarified here, I also had the orange label so I guess we are now
talking about apples and oranges