Paul M. Cook wrote:

>
> > wrote in message
> oups.com...
>> On Jul 22, 12:45 pm, "James Silverton"
>> > wrote:
>> > notbob wrote on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:01:25 -0500:
>> >
>> > ??>> I guess standards differ. TJs wines are drinkable but
>> > I've ??>> not had a *great* bottle of wine for $5 since the
>> > 1960s ??>> :-)
>> >
>> > n> I have. A 1L bottle, no less. Back around '92-93,
>> > Woodside n> was closing out the previous year's bottling of
>> > Zinfandel. n> They were discounting it all over town and I
>> > was just n> getting started on wines. I bought out all the
>> > places that n> still had some, about 6 cases from different
>> > stores, all n> bottled in different places, all about $5-6.
>> > Most of it was n> just ok, a few bottles had turned, but
>> > there were 4-5 n> bottles that were spectacular, even by a
>> > neophyte's n> standards.
>> >
>> > n> While not a $5 bottle, Gallo had a cab in '94 that was
>> > n> fantastic for only $9-10. When people caught on, it went
>> > n> like wildfire. I wish I still had some of those.
>> >
>> > Not to downgrade the bargain too much, $10 in 1994 is
>> > equivalent to $13-14 now and $14 will get you a very decent
>> > bottle of OZ Shiraz. Spending over $20 will get something
>> > verging on very good.
>> >
>> > James Silverton
>> > Potomac, Maryland
>>
>> help me out James, still a novice here, although my hubby
>> enjoys expensive champagne. Let me ask you how a cheap wine
>> WINS a competition like this TJ wine did, if you can't get
>> anything good for under $20.00. I am not doubting you or
>> causing a fight. Just wonder, really, how a wine can win if it
>> is only a couple of bucks but real wine drinkers insist it
>> can't be good. How do they finagle those darn contests? >B.T.
>>
>
> Wine contests are all classified into varietals and price. You
> do not see a 2 dollar wine competing with a 20 dollar wine. The
> TJs wine was probably in the "under 5 dollar" category.

I don't do wine so I don't have a dog in this fight, but I think
one of the articles said that some of the wines it bested cost
something like $55 a bottle. That would seem to indicate, if my
memory is accurate, that it wasn't only competing with five-buck-
or-less wine.


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