Bargain Wines

Here are a few things to keep in mind when buying wine that’s on sale.

Wine is perishable and cannot remain on the shelf for very long before it deteriorates. Valentyn Volkov/Shutterstock

For reasons too numerous to delineate, sales of wine in the United States have come to a screeching halt, leading to a lot of reasonably priced wines.

One factor that exacerbates this situation is that wine is perishable and cannot remain on the shelf for very long before it deteriorates. Take rosé wines. Some are now getting to be a bit long in the tooth.