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Wine Box Day 1: What’s a cheap wine that really tastes cheap?
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Wine Box Day 1: What’s a cheap wine that really tastes cheap?


Wine Squares Day 1

Cheap wine that tastes cheap.

What’s a cheap wine that just tastes so cheap? Could pick it blind and be confident someone has done the tasting group dirty.

Most upvoted comment after 24 hours wins the box and we move on!

by AustraliaWineDude

26 Comments

  2. 22goblins

    Depending where we are drawing the line for “cheap” (I’m thinking 20 usd or less range) that really changes the conversation. Obviously you have your carlo rossis of the world, but Im gonna go for “any chardonnay that has the word butter/buttery on the bottle”
    Theyre diabolical

  5. scoc89

    In college my only experience with wine had been Andre “champagne” from the 7/11 that never asked for ID, and boxed Franzia “Chillable Red”. But those pale in comparison to the one time a friend came over with a bottle of Cupcake Merlot. It almost ruined wine for me forever. Sixteen years later and I can still recall the synthetic bubblegum fighting the artificial vanilla in my mouth, either side refusing to yield, both wanting to cause me more disgust than the other.

    So, my humble vote, is Cupcake. Especially Cupcake Merlot.

  7. brinerbear

    The 99 cent store had wine. It wasn’t good. The beer was decent though.

  12. yesiamican

    Whatever the answer is, the key from a tasting perspective is that it is a diabolical Frankenwine that is “assembled to fit customer tastes” rather than made in a normal way for an inexpensive wine (fermented to dryness in a neutral vessel).

    It can often be easy to misread the quality on normally made wines, as it will ultimately come down to how good you are at assessing fruit quality and concentration, while frankenwines have added sugar and fake oak that are just impossible to miss.

  13. pretzelllogician

    Bread and butter Chardonnay. Grim stuff.

  14. Chungusamoungus454

    My FIL says that Trader Joe’s has fantastic wines under $10. He has no problem buying 50 dollar wines but someone turned him on to TJ’s and he hasn’t looked back.

  16. Leading_Plenty_6946

    Franzia is the vilest, Barefoot kind of pretends it is adult and actual good wine, which makes it worse in my book.

  19. NeverFailBetaMale

    Lots to choose from in this box – gotta be Franzia tho

  20. LuckyShake

    Rex Goliath Pinot Noir. I’m sure all there stuff is awful but I had that shit once when I was 21 and didn’t understand wine yet. I thought I hated Pinot Noir for a few awhile.

  23. Deleted_dwarf

    Yellow tail jammy red (and all others)