Originally Posted by
Kathrin
No decent winemaker can, for example, produce a wine for € 3,- per bottle and survive on his income. Impossible. Those wines are either from mass production on low quality level, or from producers close to bankruptcy who have no other choice but sell for dumping prices.
There's a brand of wine in the U.S. called Charles Shaw - commonly known as "Two-Buck Chuck" - that is a random blend of surplus wine bought from a variety of vintners. It sells for $2 (hence the name), or about € 1,50.