Wine

Los Angeles Times, January 21 2009: Is this the end of Two Buck Chuck? A proposal to raise the state tax on wine to a level more than six times higher to help close California’s giant budget deficit would kill the $1.99 price for Charles Shaw wine, said Fred Franzia, who created the famous label sold by the Trader Joe’s grocery chain. Charles Shaw, of course, is the formal name for the California wines sold since 2002 that are now…

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The Los Angeles Times has a great article about the $10 sweet spot for a good bottle of wine: That’s because for most people who buy and drink wine, $10 somehow feels like the right amount to spend on a bottle most of the time. Sure, there are the serious wine aficionados who think nothing of spending $40 or $50, or even $100, on a bottle for Saturday night. But for most of us, $10 is what Kyle Meyer, wine…