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To: rickmichaels
Great article! It's amazing how much people are willing to pay for a product when they think it is upscale and exclusive to the wealthy.

The wine industry is a good example. I love it when they do those blind tests with $6 wine and $200 wine and more often then not, the wine snobs go with the $6 wine.

I belong to a wine club called Splash that ships me 15 bottles of wine a month for about $89 (includes shipping). That's $6 a bottle. But the wines are not normally what you would find at the store so they have that "exotic" flair to them. People who come visit me think I'm a really sophisticated connoisseur but I don't know jack about these wines. I just know that for $6 a bottle, it tastes pretty good and I don't mind pouring my guests a second or third glass - it's cheap enough!

17 posted on 11/30/2018 7:44:36 AM PST by SamAdams76 ( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
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To: SamAdams76

“ships me 15 bottles of wine a month”

Good gosh, I hope you have some help drinking all that my friend. I see why you picked your screen name. lol


21 posted on 11/30/2018 7:49:08 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: SamAdams76

I go with the 3 dollar wine........................


32 posted on 11/30/2018 7:57:37 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: SamAdams76

Aldi grocery sells a house brand wine called Winking Owl for $2.99 a bottle. Saw a local restaurant chef buying a whole cartload of it and asked him if that was the house wine.

He winked and said, “might be”.


91 posted on 12/05/2018 3:42:25 PM PST by Rebelbase
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