Buying Good-Quality, Inexpensive Wines Has Never Been Easier

Buying Good-Quality, Inexpensive Wines Has Never Been Easier
Trader Joe's Charles Shaw wines, known as "Two-Buck Chuck," recently dropped back down to their original $1.99 price tag. DJSinop/shutterstock
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The late wine author Leon Adams once said that in a best-of-all-worlds situation, dry wine should be as cheap as milk.

We may be reaching a point where that’s true. The overwhelming volume of wine in the United States today has kept prices for much of it very fair. The evidence is everywhere.

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