{"id":8274,"date":"2011-11-23T05:20:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T11:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=8274"},"modified":"2011-11-23T05:20:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T11:20:36","slug":"be-careful-not-to-fall-in-love-with-the-better-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/be-careful-not-to-fall-in-love-with-the-better-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Be careful not to fall in love with the better stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well into a review of Geroge Taber&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1439195188\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=beertravelers&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399373&#038;creativeASIN=1439195188\"><em>A Toast to Bargain Wines: How innovators, iconoclasts, and winemaking revolutionaries are changing the way the world drinks<\/em><\/a> Mike Veseth at The Wine Economist wonders about <a href=\"http:\/\/wineeconomist.com\/2011\/11\/22\/bottoms-up-the-bargain-wine-revolution\/\">what constitutes a bargain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He draws the line at $10, which is a good thing I believe since this allows him room to include a lot of pretty good wines in his lists and not just focus on extreme values. Ironically, however, a $10 wine is classified as \u201cpremium\u201d and sometimes \u201csuper-premium\u201d here in America. The majority of American wine drinkers think of a $10 wine as a splurge.<\/p>\n<p>I have friends who are afraid to try a $10 wine because they fear that they will be able to taste the difference and be forced to turn their backs on the $6 wines they\u2019ve been enjoying for years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How ya gonna keep &#8217;em down on the farm?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well into a review of Geroge Taber&#8217;s A Toast to Bargain Wines: How innovators, iconoclasts, and winemaking revolutionaries are changing the way the world drinks Mike Veseth at The Wine Economist wonders about what constitutes a bargain. He draws the line at $10, which is a good thing I believe since this allows him room &#8230; <a title=\"Be careful not to fall in love with the better stuff\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/be-careful-not-to-fall-in-love-with-the-better-stuff\/\" aria-label=\"More on Be careful not to fall in love with the better stuff\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-29s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8274"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8288,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8274\/revisions\/8288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}