What makes wine cheap?!
Answers: I want to know the difference between the 7 dollar bottle of wine and the 70 dollar bottle of wine.
There are many factors that make for the vast price differences in wine. Here is a list of attributes of cheaper wines.
mass produced in large quantity / grapes came from many different vinevards and locations / aged in stainless steel tanks, added chemicals to increase fermentation time or to make up for a lack of chemical balance
Now, here's some of what goes into expensive fine wines...
The grapes often come from 1 specific vineyard and were handpicked at exactly the right time for optimal sugar and acid balance.
Extensive care and handling of the grapes and the pressing.
Close attention is paid to the type of yeast used for fermentation and the juice is carefully monitored, stirred, rolled over, etc.
Based on the type of wine being produced the winemaker will choose what type of oak barrels to age the wine in.
The aging wine is carefully monitored and when optimal will then be bottled, usually 12 to 24 months in the barrel.
Some wines age better than others and a really good wine that has aged for 10 to 20 years will sell for a high price not only because it is ol but because it has become rare.
So there you have it....cheap wines are made quickly and without a lot of care and fine er and more expensive wines are handcrafted and made with great care and pride.
the name or how old it is; in my opinion
The year and somtimes the vinyard.
I guess the person who makes it :(
the more expensive the wine is, the longer it was aged.
A 10 year old bottle of wine will cost more than a 1 year bottle of wine, and so on and so forth.
Wine sucks though and gives a knarly hangover the next day.
Stick to 40s and generic vodka for a cheap, good time.
:D
what makes wine so cheap is the taste, value, and the location of where grape of wines were made. besides, it can be cheap because it is not that old. as you see, most wines are expensive because it was made about 20-90 years ago. the older the wines, the cheaper it is and the younger the wine is, then it is going to be cheap.
The price. If it comes in a box it's probably cheap. The quality.
The personage that sells the wine. A fine wine can be inexpensive. The aldehydes or impurities can make for a bigger hangover. The nose, bouquet, the acid content, the maturity of the grape... contribute to the quality. Age may or may not improve a vintage.
I agree a lot with Gawdhed.
Price of wine is dependent on multiple factors. The quality, the quantity, and the cost of the making of wine determines for most part the ultimate price.
When a wine is limited in quantity, it is natural that people will pay a high price for it. This is especially true when the wine is "good" - ie it is loved by many wine drinkers and collectors as well as rated well on major publications such as Robert Parker and Wine Spectator.
Then, there is the cost of making wine. For a wine to be made, it starts as grapes. When one is growing vines and grapes, the first thing he would know is that the quality of grape is dependent on the amount of grape each vine can produce. The more grapes a vine can produce, the less concentrated the grape will be, thus the quality of wine is lower. So, expensive wines are usually from vineyards that trims the vines so that there is only 2 arms growing per vine, thereby markedly limiting the amount of grapes produced. Less grape produced = higher quality of grapes = less yield of wine produced per acre of land. Cheaper wines tend to be mass produced, with vineyards tended with the goal of growing as much grapes as possible.
Then the cost also involves in fermenting barrels - metal vs new French oak barrels vs used or cheaper barrels - nice new French oak barrels are very expensive; time of fermentation - the shorter means you can save on time needed for storage as well as men-power, not mentioning getting money into the pocket and save on interest on the loans.
Also, cheaper wines are usually from larger companies, which can afford cheaper advertisement; smaller vineyards have to spend more to sell their products - if you make 5000 bottles of wine and have to let people try the wine for free, you won't have too much left, as compared to a large company with 2-3 million bottles made per year. Wine tasting is expensive.
So, next time when you are at store, think the price not so much as the quality of the wine, but rather think of the price as the amount of work put into making this wine and how desirable this wine is.