In article >, gravesend10
@verizon.net says...
>
> "James Silverton" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Andy wrote on Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:40:39 -0500:
> >
> >> Who's in the business of making wine you wouldn't drink?
> >> Boone's Farm!
> >
> >> Maybe based on personal taste?
> >
> >> First and last wine'd dish, beef bourguignon. Turned out
> >> terrible. A flawed recipe.
> >
> >> Anyone?
>
> I almost never cook with wine. Dishes indicating wine I think turn out
> better with beer... next stew add a couple beers, whatever beer you're
> drinking.
>
> > "Wine you would drink" covers quite a range of prices.
>
> Anyone pours $30/liter wine into stew is an asshole... that's as low IQ as
> using top shelf scotch for a sour.
>
> I tend to buy the
> > more expensive 3-liter boxes with wine better than French and Italian
> > country wines but the 4-5liter Almaden-type boxes have wines that can be
> > enjoyed if not savored and are perfectly good enough for cooking. IMHO, of
> > course. Wines in jugs are something else.
> >
> >
> You actually think the size of the package makes a difference... it all
> comes from the same place... many different brands of wine are produced at
> the same winery in the same vat. Most every winery markets multiple brands
> (different packaging), it's all the same wine... this is true of most all
> products, but especially in the food and beverage industries. The cosmetic
> industry is especially guilty of questionable practices. The lipstick at
> the 99¢ store is the same as from Neiman Marcus, for $10 more you get
> glitzier packaging and the sales reps project an image so for those few
> moments they're picking your pocket you feel like royalty, but once they sit
> you down at the cosmetics bar you're not going to leave without getting a
> custom make over and dropping $300 for $20 worth of face paint. Wine and
> spirits works the same schtick. There's absolutely not a lick of difference
> between $15 vodka and $45 vodka, none because it comes out of the same
> vat... fancy glass bottles with foil labels in fancy schmancy presentation
> boxes and slick magazine spreads cost more than nondescript plastic jugs and
> zero Madison Ave input is all. All that bare cleavage in Swedish vodka ads
> cost a lotta Krona.. with my Crystal Palace all I get are my own
> manufactured dreams of Rapunzel.


Recall that a group did a study of vodka and found that running the
cheapest vodka through a Brita filter a few times yielded vodka that was
better than the high priced stuff.