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- Mar 26, 2014
You pay $250 for a bottle of wine at a restaurant? Is this often? Then you are living a high roller life. I don't think we've ever paid this much for a bottle of wine at a restaurant because we know the markup is ridiculous as you said. Only at wine auctions or like them French wine imported from overseas that costs like 2 or 300/bottle. My husband is a big wine drinker too, so much he's become a functioning alcoholic. But most of the time, he gets his wine from Costco.
When he was poor, he bought his wine from a grocery chain called Grocery Outlet ($2-3 bucks per bottle, sometimes you can find a good bottle). Actually,, he still goes to Grocery Outlet to buy his wine when we visit our parents in California. We live in Houston, TX now, so they don't have Grocery Outllet here. He likes his beer too, but only from microbreweries.
Nowadays I am lucky to afford drinking good and even very good wine. It was not the case when I lived in Bay Area 20 years ago. But it was there when I built the taste for good wine. At first some of my classmates said that the only "real wine" was Bordeaux and Bourgogne. So I would buy French wine $4-5 a bottle at Trader's Joe. But at some point I could no longer deceive myself - the wine was terrible. Hence, I switched to Californian and could find gems under $10. And microbreweries, yes, I loved them. Pete's Wicked Ale, Anchor steam, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and others - good old times.