{"id":1119,"date":"2006-08-23T10:17:21","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T17:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2006-08-23T10:17:21","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T17:17:21","slug":"the-10-bottle-of-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/23\/the-10-bottle-of-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"The $10 bottle of wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/images\/verget.wine.gif\" align=left vspace=7 hspace=7\/> The <i>Los Angeles Times<\/i> has a great article about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/food\/la-fo-wine16aug16,1,5107481,print.story\">$10 sweet spot<\/a> for a good bottle of wine:<\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That&#8217;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 buyer for Wine Exchange in Orange, calls &#8220;the magic number&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the price that feels comfortable for purchasing everyday wines, weeknight wines.<\/p>\n<p>From the retailer&#8217;s point of view, $10 is the price at which people spend freely, buying cases instead of bottles. When there&#8217;s a crowd, party planners stock the bar with $10 wines. And for wine geeks, who are always on the hunt for rare and precious wines, the trophy wine they prize most is the delicious bottle they bag for $10.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, less is not more. Things can be too inexpensive, says Clement. &#8220;People worry that if they spend less, they won&#8217;t get quality.&#8221; But at $10, people feel insulated from bad wine. That&#8217;s why even occasional wine drinkers spend freely on $10 wines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p>I currently have way too much wine in my house, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidboyk.com\">David Boyk<\/a> unloaded a ton on me before going to India, but I&#8217;m still a big fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penfolds.com\/collection\/rawsons\/\">Penfold&#8217;s Rawson&#8217;s Retreat<\/a>, which can usually be found at Trader Joe&#8217;s for under $10. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Times has a great article about the $10 sweet spot for a good bottle of wine: That&#8217;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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-wine","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-i3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}