Can you help a poor wino out?

[DeadEye]

I was told once that I had a drinking problem. OK, I've been told that a thousand times. But I do enjoy alcohol, from beer to wince to Crown. It's never been a problem for me. I drink, I get drunk, I fall down, NO problem.

But seriously, I really enjoy a glass or two of wine with dinner but hate paying $10-$12 bucks a bottle. If I pay more than $8 I feel like I'm getting screwed because there are some great wines out there for that price, and less. I prefer chardonneys and merlots, not too dry and not too sweet.Can you suggest some good wines that won't break the bank?

And remember, drop in a quarter when you see me on the corner.

[-scott-]

*rolls eyes*

yup, try The Little Penguin Cab. It's an Australian wine easily found in grocery stores around town. This is a safe bet in the cheap ($7-8) range. Looks like:

[queen]

My pallet has searched far and wide,,,but I always come back to
Kendal Jackson Chardonney myself...runs anywhere from $12 down.
My son manages a liquor store so I am usually kept supplied but I usually wait til it's on sale for $8 or less when I need some and I'm out of stock.

Queen

[stormie427]

deadeye...

now don't the rest of u wine drinkers make fun of me i'm not much of a wine drinker...so believe me i'm no expert. i like the hard stuff... any way at christmas i had to buy some for a party. someone had suggested i try arbor mist. it comes in all flavors and is cheap...did i mention deadeye...it's cheap...lol let us know what u think.

[betheny]

Call them bum wines, street wines, fortified wines, wino wines, or twist-cap wines. Whatever you call these beverages for the economical drunkard, this page explores the top five. So curl up on a heating duct and enjoy...


http://www.bumwine.com/


MD 20/20
18% or 13% alc. by vol.

As majestic as the cascading waters of a drain pipe, MD 20/20 is bottled by the 20/20 wine company in Westfield, New York. This is a good place to start for the street wine rookie, but beware; this dog has a bite to back up its bark. MD Stands for Mogen David, and is affectionately called "Mad Dog 20/20". You'll find this beverage as often in a bum's nest as in the rock quarry where the high school kids sneak off to drink. This beverage is likely the most consumed by non-bums, but that doesn't stop any bums from drinking it! Our research indicates that MD 20/20 is the best of the bum wines at making you feel warm inside. Some test subjects report a slight numbing agent in MD 20/20, similar to the banana paste that the dentist puts in your mouth before injecting it with novocain. Anyone that can afford a dentist should steer clear of this disaster. Avaliable in various nauseating tropical flavors that coat your whole system like bathtub scum, but only the full "Red Grape Wine" flavor packs the 18% whallop.

Liquor stores are starting to be infiltrated by a 13% variety of MD 20/20 Red Grape. There is also a new "Blue Raspberry" flavor with "BLING BLING". Even the lowest functioning of bums will know not to get swindled out of 5%.

Wild Irish Rose
18% alc. by vol.


Field reporter "Greyham" brings us this report: Here is Wild I's devastating new addition, "Wild Fruit with Ginseng". I'll be honest with you: the normal Wild I has turned into some sort of fierce energy drink gone wrong mixed with the original to create a bumworthy migraine-inducing concoction. I purchased a 750 mL which goes for 3.99 and a 375 mL which goes for 2.59 (at least here in FL). Word on the streets here is that the bums are wary of it. I talked to a couple that said they'd prefer to "stick with what's tried and true". Apparently they haven't accepted it yet as the real deal. As for me, I drank the 375mL on a semi-full stomach and was just ruined by the stuff. The flavor retains it's same potent Wild I nastiness but has a whole new bouquet of fruity flavor added as well (potentially aimed at bums of the female persuasion). Upon completion of the 375, I was thoroughly inebriated and found myself honestly wondering where my next fix of the stuff was going to come from. This scared me so I immediately started drinking water....here's the best part. After that relatively small bottle, I didn't piss until the next evening despite drinking copious amounts of water. There is DEFINITELY something in this stuff that dehydrates you...possibly the "ginseng" or whatever it is that they added to this already foul stuff.

[metronycguy]

i hear trader Joe's has great cheap house brand wines, if they are allowed to sell wine in your state. They cant sell wine in NY state , didn't pay off the liquor industry enough i guess. i hear they have good $2 bottle wines

[feisty]

Originally Posted by metronycguy

i hear trader Joe's has great cheap house brand wines, if they are allowed to sell wine in your state. They cant sell wine in NY state , didn't pay off the liquor industry enough i guess. i hear they have good $2 bottle wines

mmm, 2 buck chuck.

and betheny, did you know that there is major research being done on converting all wine to screw top?

Good friend of ours is a commercial winemaker and other friends of ours help run Perry Creek vineyards, and regardless of the traditional ways of thinking, the amounts of wine damaged due to bad corks every year is crazy.

[LaMemChose]

Bumwines!!! ROFLOLoudest!!! You're too much, Betheny!

[Landon]

The thought of mad dog 20/20 makes me wanna die. Fraternity hazing, pledge brothers and I had to drink so much of that stuff. Every flavor, take a swig and pass it till like 30 bottles were gone. Red grape wine and key lime pie were by far the worst. As for cheapies Deadeye, check out Yellow Tail, its another Aussie wine.

[Myc0]

My Old roomates were hard-core Rossi "fans". They loved being able to get a big ass jug of wine for cheap, and as a result we had dozens of empty Rossi jugs "decorating" our back porch. One of them went as far as spiking it with Bacardi 151*shudder*, thus making his own fortified "Rossi 151"