I really love a good wine, but it’s hard sometimes to keep up on what’s good, especially at a reasonable price. This is especially true since I really don’t have the finances to indulge this hobby as much as I would like—at least not unless it comes at the expense of something else I like to do.
A recent article series at Slate discussed wines at various price points. The first in the series (wines less than $15) included a list of importers with a recommendation that anything imported by someone on the list was a pretty safe bet. I tried that recommendation for my last dinner party, finding a couple bottles from someone on the list. It was really an excellent wine, and very inexpensive.
I think the importer trick is brilliant. It’s so much more efficient to let someone else do the selecting for you. The only difficulty I had was finding something from the list in my local liquor store. Most of their wines are instead imported by a huge company that, I don’t think, keeps quite the eye on quality that these smaller firms do. But I did find one, and there are other shops that I can try in the future.
Here’s the list.
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