Originally Posted by
chanp
I had a blind test at my house earlier in the year with folks that dont know too much about wine. The 2 buck chucks scored pretty high, IIRC the white scored #1 amongst them. I had wines from $2-150. Yellow tail as mentioned above scored high as well. Not my liking, but the cheap ones fare well.
People's palate changes as they drink more wine. Initially most people like the "soft drink" wines (hence the creation of wine coolers and the "southern comfort" wines). Tastes slowly change as they drink more wine, and it shifts to drier and deeper wines. Most casual drinkers consider the really expensive wines to be swill (both red and white) and greatly prefer under-$10 wines to over-$100 wines. A happy situation for all concerned.