Good Cheap Wine Guide

It’s Our Patriotic Duty!

Ok team USA, your help is needed once again. We need to make yet another national consumer sacrifice in order to preserve the American way of life. The situation is dire! You can see the concern as it is expressed on the face of every TV commentator on every cable news broadcast. “The economy is in trouble!” Team USA must take immediate action…and what sacrifice must we make for our nation this time….SPEND! That’s right, our government is once again asking us to “spend it like we got it” and just in case we don’t “got it”…they are going to give it to us! Yes, that’s right! You have a rebate check coming from the government that will be worth hundreds and maybe thousands of dollars!

A discussion on why to spend your rebate:

“So”, you may ask. “Wine Oaf, am I supposed to pay bills with this rebate money?” To which I respond, “Only if you want to be an unpatriotic pinko sympathizer. That’s exactly what the terrorists want you to do! Cower in your decreasing-in-equity home and pay down the Discover card. If you bleed red, white and blue you will go forth and immediately spend this windfall!”

“But Wine Oaf, my mortgage payment has gone up 25% because of some sub-prime thing. The gas pump is killing me to the point that I hardly go out anymore and food prices are increasing because farmers are turning corn into bio-fuel! I am getting crushed here! I can’t afford to drive! I can’t afford my house! And now, I can’t afford to eat! With all of this in mind you want me to go to the mall!!!”

“Ah, my poor misinformed friend, you are talking about an old remedy. Let me straighten you out. Going to the mall was our challenge after 9-11. After 9-11 President Bush wanted all Americans to go to the mall, go shopping and let the government take care of everything else. And we did! Team USA rose to the challenge and bought more stuff than we had room for in our closets or on our credit cards. It was a true national movement that turned the tide on Al Quaida once and for all. This time, and I have this on good information, the government wants you to spend the money through cybershopping.”

“Cybershopping. Wine Oaf?” , you ask.

“Yes my little real-live-nephew-of-my-Uncle Sam, cybershopping! Why else would gas prices be so high for purely artificial reasons? The government is pointing us in the right direction. Stay home and buy wine over the Internet and you will be making the homeland bountiful once again. Buy wine online and Wall Street will respond. Corporations will pay their executives increasingly gross bonuses and all will be back to normal”

“OK Wine Oaf, I get it. I will do my duty and buy wine with my rebate. What the heck, it may make me forget how broke I really am!”

“That’s the spirit friend! Get involved! Spend that rebate! Buy wine! Take it to the streets! (as long as you don’t have to drive) But be careful as well my friend. Don’t spend that rebate on any foreign prison made wine or wine made by child labor in some foreign country. Even some Italian wines are under government scrutiny! Keep those dollars at home. Support you local wineries or, if in doubt, let’s give the state of California all of our money and go deep on some great cheap Cali reds! It’s not what your country can do for you, it’s what you can buy and drink for your country!”

Once convinced we see which wines to buy with our rebates:

Taking it from the top. The qualities you are looking for are:

• Good - because life is too short for bad wine
• Cheap - because you want it to last and if the dollar keeps falling, wine would be a valuable barter item for like a live chicken or something, so get a lot.
• Domestic - so we can defeat terrorism
• Available online - because gas per liter will soon be more expensive than wine per liter. (can I run my truck on two buck chuck?)

Found this selection of 90+ranked wine below $20.oo available online: Five great reds!
Beringer 2004 Knights Valley Alluvium Red - Bordeaux Blends Red Wine
Tin Roof 2005 Merlot - Red Wine

Chateau Souverain 2005 Alexander Valley Merlot - Red Wine

Foppiano 2004 Estate Petite Sirah - Red Wine
Artezin 2006 Zinfandel - Red Wine

And… I guess I should include a white.

Two Angels 2006 Sauvignon Blanc - White Wine

For more ideas check out the Great $10 Reds category of this blog.

Just a thought, “Rebate”, doesn’t that mean it was our money originally? Hmmm. Cheers