To see how wine should be priced. I'm in East Lansing, MI, on Jane's deck, laptopping, sipping a wine purchased last night, Puydeval 2007, from the Pays d'Oc (i.e., Land where they say Oc instead of Oy [today, oui]). Our French house is there, in the Pays d'Oc. Puyvedal is quite nice: 60% cabernet franc, 30% syrah, 10% merlot. A sunny personality with a rind of plum, mid-fruity.
Cost here in Michigan, about $14 at the local rip-off wine merchant, Dusty Cellars. (OK, not that bad. Pretty typical, actually.) As Mr. T liked to say, "I pity the poor fool..." who has to purchase wine in America, where a $35 bottle of wine at Dusty's is seen as mid-range. Oh, duck! Quack, quack. Wine is NOT a luxury good. In France, a $10 wine is mid-range. And quaffable-to-delicious-to-shockingly lovely and different.
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