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$15 bottles are more reliable in my experience. You can get a great bottle of $7 wine or a terrible one. Double the price and it won’t be vinegar or total crap.

• vba616 5y ago
  I assume that when a red wine has a bitter taste that makes me think of oak barrels, that's what wine critics call "tannic". I don't like it, even if (especially if) the bottle was more expensive. And I assume other people do like it, since it isn't particular to the cheapest wine. However, reasonably priced wine frequently, but not always, has an overtone to me that is sort of flowery/perfumey/chemical that I also hate. I've been wondering for a long time if there is a standard adjective (or cause) for that. I imagine it could be like cilantro, that only some people can taste. It's very obvious to me if it is or isn't there. I've never had anything that was recently bottled that tasted like vinegar. I've only heard "vinegar" as a cliche about what can happen to wine stored for many years. 99% of adjectives used for wine in print seem to be totally random. The red wine I really like, in the $10 range, is more defined for me by the absence of bad flavor or sweetness.
• ahefner 5y ago
  Not sure about that. $15 per bottle gives a winemaker enough rope to hang themselves manipulating the flavor in an attempt to appeal to some idea of mainstream tastes and ending up with the wine equivalent of botched plastic surgery. I'd probably rather drink a slightly spoiled, vinegar-tinged $7 bottle made from poor quality grapes than some of these sweetened, flavored, excessively oaked atrocities which lately have come to make me regard the whole grocery store wine aisle as a minefield best avoided.