Back in 2000, in Temecula, CA.. We aren't real wine drinkers, so, our visits have been to Coors Brewing in Golden, Colorado and Budweiser Plants in both Ft. Collins, CO and Jacksonville, FL.
I enjoyed my yrs of Wine Tasting and Drinking and when 2Buck Chuck came to us, I bought a bottle and that was it....Very Watery and tastless......So that was that. But I recall seeing cheap drunks buying cases of 2Buck Chuck. https://catherinethegrape.com/is-two-buck-chuck-wine-worth-buying/ For me, I stayed at $7 or so a bottle for my wine price and now and then go for $15 a bottle. Wonder what those prices are now. I'm reminded of my outside sales life, my boss would push me to SPEND bigger money on customers at dinner and I went for it and ordered a $64 bottle of wine for a customer at dinner in Tacoma WA...The fellow took the empty bottle home. That was an unforgetable event..... I quit all wine at least 12 or more yrs ago....
I've never been a big fan of wine. The only kind I actually like is a muscadine wine made from muscadine or scuppernong grapes. The wine is mildly sweet and very fragrant.
I quit drinking in 1990. I loved beer, tequila shots and gin & tonic. I don't know that I've ever tried wine, although I have half a dozen bottles right now I use for cooking. I find it fascinating that parts of Virginia have become famous for their wines...late frosts have wiped a few of them out. There's a bunch of vineyards (including Trump's) near me. They host lots of tasting events.
My daughter and her husband are quite snobby about wine so I try to have a bottle of Mad Dog 2020 or a vat of Mogen David, or some of that blue-colored Boone's Farm when they visit. They are also persnickety about coffee and craft beer, which makes me want to doze off. It's all just too "Emperor's New Clothes-ish" for me.
I changed my mind. I have had "wine." I've had Boones Farm Apple (but not Strawberry) Wine, and when a friend's parents went out of town, he and I each chugged a half bottle of Mogen David Cream Cherry Concord wine. I went outside and got sick in the bushes and he got sick in the sink, which is probably why we survived. My face was numb for 3 days. Just typing the story makes me feel a little queasy.
I liked Boones Farm Strawberry Hill in the early 70s for a short spell, now I like a sweet wine, my favorite is Papi from Italy, but the same name comes from Greece,etc. So it isn't fancy.
yep, the people gave it t he 2buck name....I may have tasted this white wine version but it was watery...
Have you had muscadine wine, Marie? The stores near you may have Duplin Wine, which is made in North Carolina.
No Beth I haven't but I sure ate a lot of wild muscadines growing up. I'll check and see if the store has it.
We drank the Boone's Farm and Annie Green Springs and that ilk in college in the 60's because....well....it was cheap and we needed to get drunk cheaply. Now, if a guy brought a bottle of Mateus or some brand of wine that came in what looked like a stone bottle (cannot for the life of me remember the name) on a date, that meant that he had spent, maybe, up to FIVE DOLLARS on that bottle and he was sure as heck expecting something in return. We called it "seduction wine". You were going to have to work extra hard defending your virtue. Luckily, my dates were broke as hell...and cheap....and it didn't take much effort to keep the blouse buttoned and the bra properly hooked.
All of this is bringing back memories. My first job out of high school, I was cashier/stock clerk/beer & wine department manager at a drug store. (I was 18 and the drinking age was 21.) I don't believe I've encountered a bottle of Mateus since that job in 1972. And I bet that stone bottle was Lancers, @Mary Robi. Our big wine sellers were the half gallon jugs of Paul Masson and Gallo (makers of Boones Farm.) The cheap beers in my region were Mickey's Big Mouth, Rheingold Chug-a-Mug, and Blatz. (Gotta give a shout out to the 7 oz. pony bottles of Rolling Rock.) Good times on a budget!