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Re:Is Wine Fake? by lvass on Monday November 21, 2022 @05:30PM (#33699022)
Absolutely true in South america. I've had a ton of different sub-$5 wines. In my experience, if you randomly buy 20 bottles of $5 wines, one is better than a $100 bottle, plus you also get some 5 great wines, 10 good ones and the rest works for cooking.

The best wine I've ever drank cost less than $3 and was produced in a tropical (21 South), 800m altitude region of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Never assume wine is bad because it's cheap or from somewhere.

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Re:Is Wine Fake? by davnicwil on Monday November 21, 2022 @05:37PM (#33699119)
> The best wine I've ever drank

Do you remember what this was called, or specifically where? If I'm ever there I'd love to find this!

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Re:Is Wine Fake? by lvass on Monday November 21, 2022 @05:43PM (#33699192)
Quinta dos Guimarães, from Santa Bárbara do Monte Verde. It's super hard to find and they might be defunct, it's been quite a few years.
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Re:Is Wine Fake? by davnicwil on Monday November 21, 2022 @06:06PM (#33699461)
thank you!
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Re:Is Wine Fake? by jacobr1 on Monday November 21, 2022 @06:44PM (#33699814)
One of the big differences in this category (cheap wines) is consistently. You can genuinely find great wines, but there is much greater variance in the quality year to year, or within variety of the same winery. In other words, the following year might be a crap wine, good, or in-between.
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