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False! I personally don't like Yellowtail. I think their wines, although tasty for the dollar amount you spend, are sour. You get what you pay for. But, I've been drinking wine for a while and may have been spoiled. When I worked at wine store I got to sample the wines from our distributors before we would put them on the shelf. Talk about a job perk!

You asked if it was true that the better tasting wines are more expensive. That is a situational thing. Ryan doesn't like wine but he tried a Cabernet Sav. once that he loved. Unfortunately it was 77$ a bottle. But there are many excellent bottles of wine out there for 10$ a bottle.

If you are only going to have one glass a day, you may want to consider getting a wine saver too. (There are a couple of different "methods" out there and they aren't too expensive either.) That way you keep your wine from turning to vinegar.

Scobro's right, you don't need to spend a lot on wine.

Still, try the free wine tastings first. If you go to a wine store (not a Liquor Barn) but a place where they know wine, tell them what you are looking for, how much you are willing to spend and see if they can recommend a bottle or two.

If you are ever nearer to Cincy there is a wine shop on the KY side of 75 that has a huge selection and huge free wine tasting every weekend.

Try a fine chianti with some liver and fava beans fth-fth-fth-fth-fth-fth!!!!

The best I have ever had and nothing will possibly beat this wine. The VERY BEST of the VERY BEST.

All the wines mentioned here are great, but he asked for a Kool-Aid type of wine, which means he wants something sweet and cheap.

Red Rose as I said is close as you'll get (boones IS koolaid). Also, you can take a wine that doesn't taste good and add sprite or 7-UP for a spritzer.

Yellowtail is choss.....

You will want to probably start with a dessert wine, Chrisman Mill has an excellent dessert wine that's sweet and red, generally under 12 bucks. My non-wine drinking friends have repeatedly told me this is the best wine they've ever had, it's sweet and tastes a lot like kool-aid.

If you come into Lex, hit the Throughbred liquors on Versailles Rd. The owner there is one of my favorite people to ask about wine and his suggestions are always right on.

there is an article in last month's money magazine about wine tastes versus dollar's spent. they did a blindfolded taste test with the official wine snobs who write articles, and the results were amazing and hilarious.

for example, over 70% of these folks could not tell the difference between a red and a white when served at the same temp.

also, they switched labels on bottles, so that "cheap wine" was served with an expensive label. (and vice versa) the folks then went on to describe this supposed expensive wine in much more favorable and flowery terms....lol

check it out, you wine snobs....

He asked for a Kool-Aid type wine but will lose the benefit of red wine if he takes that course.

Seriously, man...just get one of the better mainstream red wines mentioned here (Rosemont Shiraz and Sterling Merlot are my two favorites) and get used to it with some good bread, cheese, fruit, pasta dishes....Italian food is best. You just have to get used to wine, then you'll be able to drink it by itself. I LOVE wine but there are still times that my glass of wine tastes like it's gone bad but then I drink it with bread and butter and it's amazing.

A bunch of folks I work with used to have pretty regular wine guzzling - burp - I mean wine tasting parties. Repeated sampling of merlot's finally got me to quit making "ooh gross" faces when drinking red wine. I'm still not big on really strong cabs, but I'm getting there.

If you want something nicer, then I also like Robert Mondovi, a nice chuffafornian wine.

red bicyclette has a great shiraz as well.