Milhouse Van Houten wrote:

I was reading over some of the old threads on this topic, and opinions
ranged from these being poor to passable, but since that's so relative, can
someone compare them with the other common bargain wine, Charles "Two Buck
Chuck" Shaw (cab sav, merlot, etc)? Thanks.

Someone -- I think it was either the Los Angeles Times or
Orange County Register, did an article about 6-9 months
ago (in their weekly wine column) comparing Two Buck Chuck
to a box wine. I don't remember which box wine they
chose, but it was one they considered passable, and a lot
better than the Chuck. The point of the article was not
to pre-judge based on the packaging. The article is
pretty much exactly what you're asking for.

I just took a look at the OC Register archives, and I -think-
it's the fourth article he

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=OC&p_theme=oc&p_action=search&p _maxdocs=200&p_text_search-0=%22Charles%20Shaw%22&s_dispstring=Charles%20Shaw %20AND%20date(all)&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date& xcal_useweights=no

However, you have to pay about the cost of a bottle of the
Chuck to see the article (money better spent, in my opinion).


Larry Coon
University of California