For lovers of cheap wines

[Eddy]

Wal-Mart announced that, sometime in 2012, it will begin offering
customers a new discount item ---- Wal-Mart's own brand of wine. The
world's largest retail chain is teaming up with Ernest & Julio Gallo Winery of
California to produce the spirits at an affordable price, in the $2 - $5 range.

Wine connoisseurs may not be inclined to put a bottle of Wal-Mart brand
into their shopping carts, but 'there is a market for inexpensive wine,'
said ; Kathy Micken, professor of marketing at the University of Arkansas ..

'But the right name is important.'

Customer surveys were conducted to determine the most attractive name for
the Wal-Mart wine brand. The top surveyed names in order of popularity
were:

10. Chateau Traileur Parc
9. White Trashfindel
8. Big Red Gulp
7. World Championship Riesling
6. NASCARbernet
5. Chef Boyardeaux
4. Peanut Noir
3. I Can't Believe it's not Vinegar
2. Grape Expectations
1. Nasti Spumante

The beauty of Wal-Mart wine is that it can be served with either white
meat (Possum) or red meat (Squirrel).

 

[donP]

Connoisseurs

Americans seem to have a very pragmatic approach when it comes to wines.

Once I dined in a Florida lobster place and witnessed a conversation at the table next to me:
Guest: "Any ros? wine?
Waiter: "Sorry, sir, only white and red..."
Guest: "No problem then, let us have a glass of each, will mix it at the table..."


donP

 

[rubio_higuey]

Carlos Rossi was quite popular, it used to cost US$4 (now $5) and it was quite popular among the youth crowds in Higuey. This wine even sells at liquor stores (aka center-point of crowd gathering), where it makes decent competition to whiskies, rums and vodkas.

What I want to say, $5 price tag for a wine is not bad, here at $5 Carlos Rossi, imported, is doing quite well. I guess because it doesn't have a crapshot taste rather it's quite similar to cabernet sauvignon.

 

[belgiank]

I know a Brit who likes to drink the cooking wine they sell here at the colmado's, and claims it is very nice.

BelgianK

 

[Eddy]

You guys are breaking me up.

 

[belgiank]

You guys are breaking me up.

Well, the names of the walmart wine wee breaking me up as well, especially the meat recommendation at the bottom.

So enlighten us, Eddy, and I am being serious. Give us a decent white and red wine, which are value for their buck here. I mean, a wine you can drink daily. Not one for those special occasions, where you do not mind how much you have to spend on that Chablis Grand Cru.

It is my one disappointment here, that wine is so expensive, coming from a country where wine is very cheap.

BelgianK

 

[belgiank]

I've known more than one bar owner that has poured Carlos Rossi in other wine bottles to be served to customers, and be told how great it is.

You don't insist on the bottle being opened at the table?

BelgianK

 

[belgiank]

Did I ever tell you I owned a bar for 11 years??

I stand corrected...

BelgianK

 

[Eddy]

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So enlighten us, Eddy, and I am being serious. Give us a decent white and red wine, which are value for their buck here. I mean, a wine you can drink daily. Not one for those special occasions, where you do not mind how much you have to spend on that Chablis Grand Cru.

It is my one disappointment here, that wine is so expensive, coming from a country where wine is very cheap.

BelgianK

Several Rests. use these as house wines:

Italian: Pagiu (Sangiovese Dell'umbria) 2010. Cost: 220.00
Veneto (Cabernet Sauvignon) Cost. 279.00

French: Chateau Moulin de Bayron (Bordeaux 2002) Cost. 489.00
Chateau Lebreuilh Bellevue (Bordeaux 2002) Cost. 465.00 (My favorite, 1 bottle per day with dinner)

Several other decent wines in the US$5 to $10 range are available at stores in the area.

 

[Como_un_cameron]

Doesn't red wine get screwed up when it reaches 22 degrees for a few days???

 

[rubio_higuey]

Doesn't red wine get screwed up when it reaches 22 degrees for a few days???

I don;t think supermarkets have an inside temperature <21 degrees C.

 

[Como_un_cameron]

Of course and where did they store it before you buying it ?

Wine in a tropical country is expensive if you want a "good" one.