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Wines of the 1970's....
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mmaher94087
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Before "Almaden Mountain Red" it was Red Mountain; $1.49 a gallon! First chug was a killer but after that, Who cared?
M E Morrison
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Forgot about Mateus. Never tried the wine
but always kept an eye peeled for empties.
Perfect shape for the melted candle look.
Personally I preferred the bottles with the wicker bottom for candle holders. I must have good taste, as every Italian restaurant I can recall also used them.
Swizzle! Yummy! A friend and I finished off 11 bottles of Annie Green Springs one night. I've been drunker and I've been sicker, but I can't remember when.
My father liked Wente Brothers............. Gray Riesling.
Did you notice that Johannesburg Riesling is no longer on the labels?
Pass the Blue Nunn, please.
Did you notice that Johannesburg Riesling is no longer on the labels?
Pass the Blue Nunn, please.
Coldshooter
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Drink a bit of this and have the sudden urge to ram a Cadillac with a Toyota. Many of these wines were fine purgatives the better ones came with a message, "BEWARE". All in all these wines helped me to make my rule not to drink any alcoholic beverage which was less than four dollars per gallon.
Amen. My favorite wine is Piesporter Michelberg Spatlese. Which would surely gag a wine connoisseur. Oh, and I put it in the refrigerator.
rburg
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You say it like its a bad thing.
Stevens
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In the late 60s around here it was "Morgan Davis" or "Mannnisherry" you could buy a setup: a bucket of ice, six paper cups, and a bottle for a couple of bucks.
Steve W
Steve W
hexnut
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Bawtinhimer red currant wine. Maybe not the way to spell it but I drank a lot of that in 70 after Vietnam.
Mateus.. Lancers.. Mouton Cadet, nothing over $4.00 a bottle
Of course growing up with the homemade everything tasted like dishwater
Of course growing up with the homemade
everything tasted like dishwater
Pop kept a jug of Gallo bros under the kitchen sink [emoji1]
I wouldn't touch that stuff!
I wouldn't touch that stuff!
venomballistics
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Mateus.. Lancers.. Mouton Cadet, nothing over $4.00 a bottle
Of course growing up with the homemade
Chateau Ebola was the house house brand when I made my own hangover.
MD 2020 in later years made me think twice at first taste.
one could ramble through the woods playing "is that edible" would do just as well
RobertJ.
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We cook with that all the time. It goes in lotsa stuff!
And nobody's mentioned Red Rocket, one of MD's rivals. November 1978, it was $1.79. And it was 21%!
I'm not sure how or why I remember that!
Oh yeah, I seem to recall being a con-a-sewer of the finer wines. I liked to drink a fifth of Night Train before I went out to play pool. I didn't seem to need to drink as much beer that way!
And I could pound down Gallo Sangria on ice on a nice warm day! $5.00 a gallon, and you could drink it like Kool-Aid!
This was a long time ago, thankfully!
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Texas Star
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Doesn't Ch. Ste. Michelle and their sister winery Columbia Crest still make good domestic Riesling?
If you go German, ignore Blue Nun (correct spelling.) Try a Spatlese grade from an estate like Rudesheimer Berg Rottland or a Mosel from the Prum-Erben family. Wehlener-Sonnennuhr is good. They're real Riesling. Bernkastel wines come in various grades and you have to know the system. The best is Bernkasteler Doctor, but it's VERY expensive.
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Texas Star
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Personally I preferred the bottles with the wicker bottom for candle holders. I must have good taste, as every Italian restaurant I can recall also used them.
That's cheap Chianti. The better Chianti Classico Riserva uses bottles that look like Bordeaux bottles. Look for the black rooster on the neckband to get the genuine ones from the proper consortium.
But it still falls way short of good Cabernet sauvignon from the usual places. That's one of the main grapes used in red Bordeaux, of course, but is sold by the generic name in other countries, inc. the USA.
If you like white wine, try a good Sauvignon blanc. Kendall-Jackson in CA makes one of my favorites. Superb with fish, very good with chicken, too. With turkey, I like it or a German Spatlese grade Riesling or a red wine. The better ones from St. Julien in the Medoc are superb. The best Chilean Cabernets are higher priced now, but still good values. Try Vina Santa Carolina's wines.
There was also two little round bottles with a little neck flared at the top
and it came in a Olive green and a burnt Brown color jug.
Forget the name but it was not too bad for a table wine.
and it came in a Olive green and a burnt Brown color jug.
Forget the name but it was not too bad for a table wine.
gruntshot
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In Alabama,they sold a wine called Red Dagger in the 60's,I move to Kentucky in 1969,and they sell a wine call MD 20-20,i'll go to my grave believing it's the same wine,with two different names!
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By the 70s, I'd already been to Germany.
So, for weekends and date nights, it was Black Cat or Nekkid Baby. See the pics. We simplify speech in The South. 
Or Mateus or Lancers.
More than 2 bucks a bottle!
Or, all of the above.
So, for weekends and date nights, it was Black Cat or Nekkid Baby.
See the pics. We simplify speech in The South. Or Mateus or Lancers.
More than 2 bucks a bottle!
Or, all of the above.
