I don't know. $3 buck Chuck has always been kind of dissapointing. Perhaps it's because I heard how wonderful and cheap it was for so long before I actually tried it. It hadn't a chance of living up to the hype. The very same thing happened with Forrest Gump for me. Would I have liked it if I'd not heard a thing about either of them? We'll never know
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3 buck chuck is...unpredictable. Because they sell oceans of it, so they have various sources. They had some not-too-bad cabernet sauvignon not too long ago, and then suddenly the Charles Shaw cabernet had a disgusting artificial-vanilla aftertaste. The thing about Trader's is that they have other wines for $3.50 (the Trader's brand Chileans), $4, $5...quite a few more than at Safeway or Fred's.
What, I'm off the Internet 24 hours and you abandon me and my journal?
Okay, consistency has to be there for wine, as I know NOTHING about it. The year means something, the weather on bottling day means something, the brand of shampoo the bottler used means something. I have no time nor the inclination to care about such things. I just want a wine that goes down easily and stays down in large quantities. Basically, I want the Wonder Bread of wine. Cheap, not that outstanding, but the same experience every time you try it.
So in short, Trader Joe's wine is too much like real wine. There are too many unknowns that can affect the same kind of wine and then you have to decide between the 2007 and the 2009, blah blah blah blah. Although I promise if you and I are ever sharing a bottle of red that I will at least take it out of the paper bag and try to not embarrass you.
It'll be gone so fast, why bother taking it out of the bag?
T. Joe's gets some good stuff, but when it's good *and* cheap it vanishes very fast.
You were off the internet for 24 hours? I've heard of people doing that...though I think it's rarely been attempted since around 2002. I might be able to do it, if I was in jail or kidnapped by insurgents or something.
I had a surprising lot of luck with some $20 for 4 bottles of Costco wine about two weeks ago. Normally, they only sell wine that costs more than I'll drink, as in $10+. Apparantly, one of their suppliers had a batch that someone peed in or something, so even us peasants could readily afford it.
It's such a shame Costco operates on the same business model as a decent yard sale. If you buy it and you love it, you go back and it's gone forever.
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Yes, free red is veddy dangerous.
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Okay, consistency has to be there for wine, as I know NOTHING about it. The year means something, the weather on bottling day means something, the brand of shampoo the bottler used means something. I have no time nor the inclination to care about such things. I just want a wine that goes down easily and stays down in large quantities. Basically, I want the Wonder Bread of wine. Cheap, not that outstanding, but the same experience every time you try it.
So in short, Trader Joe's wine is too much like real wine. There are too many unknowns that can affect the same kind of wine and then you have to decide between the 2007 and the 2009, blah blah blah blah. Although I promise if you and I are ever sharing a bottle of red that I will at least take it out of the paper bag and try to not embarrass you.
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T. Joe's gets some good stuff, but when it's good *and* cheap it vanishes very fast.
You were off the internet for 24 hours? I've heard of people doing that...though I think it's rarely been attempted since around 2002. I might be able to do it, if I was in jail or kidnapped by insurgents or something.
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It's such a shame Costco operates on the same business model as a decent yard sale. If you buy it and you love it, you go back and it's gone forever.
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