Costco Gutter Wines

[tp4tissue]

Tp4 can only fordz dat cheep costco swills.

But it haz this sticker that says, wine enthusiast, and a number 90. Not sure if it's out of 100, but usually in america 90 is an A-.

Are these enthusiast magazine ratings legit ??

Or is it like, dolphin safe tuna, where they kill the dolphin anyway.

[noisyturtle]

You can get some very respectable wines in the $14-18 range, and some quite palatable ones for around $9-12
Personally I love Trader Joe's imported wine selection. Bordeaux and Rhône are my go-to, and TJs has a great selection of French reds under $20. Almost anything imported will beat the pants off anything produced in the US, and a lot of low end US wines have a lot off additives to taint the taste and trick undeveloped pallets. Fruit extracts, and oak chips always jump out immediately for me.

This is a good little video for picking up on tasting habits

[tp4tissue]

Been reading some wine literature, it's really similar to keyboard/switch reviews. No objective data, it feels like, tastes like, therefore.  Even if they did add objective data, data would be 1 dimensional specs which are difficult to attribute to quality, as there are no objective requirement for the wine other than it doesn't make you blind and/or kills you.

So it's subjective, and now we're in the popularity contest category.

It's reads like the whole platform was hallucinated by AI.