A new year. A new Budget Vino.

Over the past year, I have continued to enjoy wines that cost less than $10. However, I have also found myself loving some wines that are often a few dollars above that threshold. I’ve been hesitant to write about them as my site has always been for “the $10 and under crowd.” As a result, I have written less.

It was during the holidays that I had a Budget Vino revelation. I realized that I should continue to dedicate the site to $10 and under wines, but that I should also give myself the opportunity to discuss amazing bargain bottles that I find during my regular trips to the grocery store or local wine shop. When I stumble upon a great bottle of wine that costs $15, I see no reason to keep it to myself. So with that in mind, I would like to introduce the new Budget Vino site tagline-

“The webs best source for budget wines and bargain bottles”

Rest assured that even with the tagline change, the site will continue to focus on wines costing less than $10. The difference is that the content will expand to give you more options.

We can all agree that economic times are tough, and under $10 wines are more important than ever. As our credit markets crumble and the word “bailout” has become the punchline in a joke we never wanted to hear but seem unable to avoid, we should always be able to enjoy a nice glass of wine and at a reasonable cost.

Yet even in this recession, or depression, or whatever you want to call it, I still sometimes find myself with a desire to splurge (but not too great excess). My day to day wines are almost always under $10, but when I’m presented with a great bargain bottle, or a special occasion arises and I want to treat myself to something special, I simply can’t help myself. I have to give the bottle a try. If you too like to splurge from time to time, I’m hoping that before you go to the store, you’ll make a visit to Budget Vino. I want the site to be your best source for budget wines and bargain bottles.

Here’s to a happy and healthy 2009!

Dorian

Comments

[Joel e Raul]

We are authors of a blog wine in Portugal, which has the address: http://do-nariz-a-boca.blogspot.com/

We visited your blog and enjoyed immensely, everything is very well organized, easy to understand, nice design, congratulations on your work.

We would like to make a request. You can create a link to your blog with our link?
If not ask for more, could even put a message on his blog, to make announcement on our blog.

We would appreciate very much.

We expect a response

[Aidan Sciandra]

Dear Dorian -

I like the revised mission statement of your blog. It is very timely, and I look forward to your future posts. I would like to send you an email regarding a project that I am working on, and couldn't find an email address. If you could send me an email, I would appreciate it.

All the best-

Aidan Sciandra

[derek]

Totally agree with you !! One does get the feeling of splurging once in a while. If a slightly expensive wine looks appealing to me I generally look up sites like bottlenotes and check out what people have to say about that wine... So id get some sorta idea of what it would be ...

[Daniel]

Congrats on not being rigid. I can really appreciate the concept that good wine can be surprisingly inexpensive, but there's certainly no reason you need to get hung up on a specific price point. Wine can be a great value based on many things, not just price.

As always, I enjoy reading your thoughts!

Dan
Casual Kitchen

[Grant]

Have you considered rating a bunch of the wines from Trader Joe's? Although there are a number that are not too great, there also are plenty in the $4-7 range that are very good.

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[W.D. Arnold]

A New Year already! We need budget vino now more than ever. Will we be hearing from you any more?