Thunderbird? Annie Green Springs, Strawberry Hill? Boone's Farm? Ripple? Italian Swiss Colony? Until we discovered wine tasting....these were what we were familiar with at 21 years of age...now...ugh!
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Wines of the 1970's....
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dusty3030
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MD 20/20 (MadDog)......just the thought of that stuff brings back a massive headache and nightmares of the morning after.
Don
Don
Manischewitz, Richards Wild Irish Rose and Bali Hai.
At 17 ones taste buds are but speed bumps.
At 17 ones taste buds are but speed bumps.
Riuniti (prob spelled that wrong) on ice! That's nice. For that classy date at Pizza Hut.
Gpsman
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Maddog 2020....Rosie O' Grady....
Old times! Not sure I remember them as good times!
Old times! Not sure I remember them as good times!
Step N. Mud
Member
Sangria wine. 
M E Morrison
Member
It is amazing how many of these are/were Gallo products bottled under different names. Also all the fllavors of Boones Farm are all Apple wine with different fllavors added.
Bkreutz
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My favorite whine of the '70s was "I want to hear more disco music"
rburg
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I saw no mention of my favorite, Zapple, Cinnamon apple wine. It was good stuff, and no too overpriced. As I recall, it was about 99 cents for a bottle, in line with "hill". Strawberry Hill, that was. Its big advantage was it had no ugly after taste. You got the good apple flavor and then the after taste was masked with a cinnamon flavor. You could drink it until you fell over and puked. The next morning was no worse than anything else. We drank it in the 60s and early 70s, then it kind of vanished. Along about the mid 1980s we were at a friends garage. The top of the concrete block walls were lined with empty bottles, I guess consumed while building the garage or "working". There, up high, were about a dozen bottles of my former favorite. All empty of course.
Also in the early 1970s we discovered Ripple Pear wine. We lived in an apartment, and the guy next door's wife was a nurse like my wife. They worked 2nd shift so we were "unsupervised" in the evening. We falsely decided it would be a good idea to buy a couple of bottles each and tie one on. A strong hint of the bad idea was the label that suggested it be served ice cold. Never being overly bright, we "served" it ice cold as suggested, right out of the bottle. We kept pace and nearing the end of the 2nd bottle each, the thought came to us that it might be a bad idea. But being young and kind of student poor, we finished those bottles. Remember our total cost was under $2 each. Gawd did our head hurt the next moring. Pear wine tasted good but had an awful after effect. Sometimes things that sound like a good idea turn out differently in practice. I haven't talked to the other guy in years, but I'd bet he hasn't touched any of it since then, either.
Also in the early 1970s we discovered Ripple Pear wine. We lived in an apartment, and the guy next door's wife was a nurse like my wife. They worked 2nd shift so we were "unsupervised" in the evening. We falsely decided it would be a good idea to buy a couple of bottles each and tie one on. A strong hint of the bad idea was the label that suggested it be served ice cold. Never being overly bright, we "served" it ice cold as suggested, right out of the bottle. We kept pace and nearing the end of the 2nd bottle each, the thought came to us that it might be a bad idea. But being young and kind of student poor, we finished those bottles. Remember our total cost was under $2 each. Gawd did our head hurt the next moring. Pear wine tasted good but had an awful after effect. Sometimes things that sound like a good idea turn out differently in practice. I haven't talked to the other guy in years, but I'd bet he hasn't touched any of it since then, either.
hoosierone
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Mine was Spanada. $1.89 a bottle. In those days it was a treat.
shouldazagged
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The worst: Gallo White Port, AKA Chateau Walgreens. Tuesday was a good year.
deadin
US Veteran
Anybody ever get wasted on Akadama? It was the downfall of many a young sailor in Westpac..........
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M E Morrison
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Marshwheeling
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Almaden Mountain Red, Mateus, Blue Nun, any Chianti with a basket around the bottle. I guess those are more a '60s thing, but that is what the congenial young ladies of the East Bay served.
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