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Affordable Wines for the Wine Lover in All of Us

This wonderful website sells only one wine at a time. The best wines, reduced greatly in price, and sold until there is none left. Then they advertise another one. What a great idea!

When you were first introduced to the word "wine", what sort of meaning did it have for you at the time? My husband and I were beer and popcorn type of people, having done the good old college trick after we were married, whereby he went to school and I worked full time. Wine was unheard of in our house during college days.

As time progressed, and we moved on, we gradually caught up with some friends previously transferred West and we were invited for dinner one evening. When we asked what we could bring, they suggested a bottle of wine, but they did not say what color, or what they were serving, but I am sure that it really would have had no bearing on us anyway since we were total "newcomers to the wine" social evenings in town - we just were not wine drinkers and hadn't the slightest idea of what was what.

We arrived with what we thought was a relatively expensive bottle of red wine - they looked at it and just started to laugh! I cannot tell you now what wine it was but I remember it was probably similar to a 17 on the scale of sweetness, so our friends mentioned that perhaps we could hold it over until another evening. They very politely took out a wine that they usually have on hand for such occasions and we had a wonderful dinner, since both were excellent cooks.

Now that we have grown "into wines" considerably over the years, we enjoy a glass of wine in the summer on our back garden deck and patio, while birdwatching and waiting for the sunsets. The birdbath we have is not a large one, but we sure do enjoy the activity that it produces when the birds either try to share or just cannot get along - reminds me of children, somehow!

Vineyards are found most often in river valleys along slopes that will provide the grape with plenty of sunshine. The chemistry of grapes never changes. With few exceptions, they grow 30 - 50 degrees north and south of the equator, give or take a degree and really do not require a fertile soil, which can produce too much nitrogen and other nutrients to produce a good quality wine.

A master vintner (aka an oenologist) today must be an expert on soil chemistry, fermentation and climatology. That winery must have a staff capable of balancing dozens of time-sensitive factors to get the wine to the bottle stage, then to market for you and I to enjoy. Just so you know, there were 595 million gallons of wine sold in the United States alone in 2002. How many of those did YOU enjoy? Red wines, white wines, blush wines, rose wines - it does not matter as long as you did.

We hope you will enjoy our website, put together for the discriminating wine lover who does not necessarily have a lot of money to spend. We have researched wines from around the world to come up with wines that have a price tag that most of us can afford. We add information regularly to this site so check back often to see what is new. Anything missing? Have a special wine you think we should be promoting? Let us know if you have found a "cheap and cheerful" wine that you feel others would enjoy.

Wine - modern science, global business and an Ancient Art form.

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