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\"\"<\/a>When I was fifteen or so, my father used to open one of those squat, funny looking bottles of Portuguese wine, Mateus, when we would have a roast on Sunday. Sunday dinner was probably one of the few meals we ate together as a family. He\u2019d joke about contributing to the delinquency of minors, referring to my sister Ronna, who was twelve months older, and me. All the while, he\u2019d be smiling at the thought of us sharing a meal together or thinking about his daughters being safely at home instead of out with friends where we would be more likely to make mischief. Of course, my sister and I were delighted at the chance to imbibe a grown-up beverage.<\/p>\n

On Fridays or Saturdays, if we ordered a pizza, my father would uncork a bottle of Lambrusco. Too sweet for my current tastes, at the time, this Italian red seemed like the perfect thing to drink with a spicy sausage or pepperoni pizza.<\/p>\n

I guess you could have called them everyday wines.<\/p>\n

These days, I might reach for a Cabernet or Syrah to drink with a roast and a Zinfandel or Chianti to sip with a pizza, but I have stuck with the idea that an everyday wine makes a meal special.<\/p>\n

I have been having fun with this idea as it makes me go \u2018treasure hunting,\u201d looking for deals on wines.<\/p>\n

What constitutes an everyday wine? It\u2019s not that I drink wine every day. It\u2019s mostly about economy. It\u2019s about an affordable luxury. A good friend talks about an everyday wine as something that\u2019s \u201cdrinkable\u201d and costs $9-$13. My threshold for spending comfort is a little lower, closer to $7-$9 and, while I wouldn\u2019t drink vinegar regardless of alcohol content or relative cost, my palate probably accepts a wider range of what\u2019s drinkable.<\/p>\n

So, I love to wander down the aisles of Binny\u2019s or Foremost looking for deals like a $13.99 Cotes du Rhone for $8.99, or a good Temecula Valley Sauvignon Blanc for under $10. Sometimes, I\u2019ll look for vineyards or wineries that produced other wines I\u2019ve liked, or sometimes, I\u2019ll go by label. If the graphics and bottle art appeals to me, I will often give something a try. Sometimes, I\u2019ll laugh at my own biases. I have some silly notion that wines from odd years will be better tasting than wines bottled in even years. I\u2019ll tell myself that good doesn\u2019t mean expensive and that perfectly fine wines can come in screw-top bottles, but I will still often look for the original sticker price to benchmark quality and hesitate before ringing up a Meritage in a screw-top.<\/p>\n

I like to turn on other people to my finds. I love seeing a friend\u2019s face when I open a bottle of Frontier Red, a small batch California wine, and tell its story as I pour. Each everyday wine seems to have a story, which I like too, either about the product or about my first taste. Fess Parker, after he retired the coonskin cap he wore as a TV Davy Crockett, started a winery with his family in Santa Ynez, just outside of Santa Barbara. The winery supposedly was one of the ones featured in the movie, Sideways. As I recount the tale of Frontier Red, I don\u2019t always include the fact that it was first suggested by a Trader Joe\u2019s team member.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t drink wine from a box I have permanently installed and tapped in my refrigerator. I choose what I keep around the house, and I will choose what I want to drink depending on my mood, my menu, or my company. Having a few bottles of inexpensive wines in my household inventory makes me feel like I always like have choices, like I could always welcome a friend for a visit.<\/p>\n

Maybe, too, enjoying an everyday wine makes me think about my father. It makes me recall the delight I had as a young teen when I was feeling a little naughty without causing anyone harm.<\/p>\n

Reveling in the spirit of naughty but nice is no small thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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