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Originally Posted by maleficent
you don't need to spend a lot to get a good bottle - 25 - 30 is ridiculously overpriced... Food and WIne magazine every month lists a bunch of bottles in the 10 -15 dollar range that are quite good...
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By whose standards is a wine ridiculously over-priced? By mine $25-30 ... is not; it really depends on what I'm in the mood for. My favorite wines are Valpolicella (not the Chianti tasting crap that they serve in restaurants). Magazines like Food & Wine tend to the cheaper stuff because of their reader base; the average person would not buy a wine magazine if it only contained wines that no one can afford.
Merlot has gotten a bad rap ... there are some really good Merlots out there. The line about "no one over 21 would be impressed" sounds like something from a movie called "Sideways." A <i>good</i> Merlot would impress most people. However, Merlot is not usually sweet, so it wouldn't fit with what the poster is looking for.
White Merlot is sometimes sweet though a good one is not cheap. There are cheap ones out there ... so maybe go for that. White Merlot - it's different enough that it might be kind of cool.
If you really want sweet go for fruit wines or nectar wines. Peach wine if you can find it can be good.
Or just make Amaretto Sours and forget the whole wine thing.