Originally Posted by lhrsfo

No. I've tried very many US wines over the years and only liked a handful, all at the most absurd price points - in the order of 3 to 10 times the price of wine of equivalent quality from elsewhere. Whether it's the $40 wine at the cheap end of a California wine list - almost undrinkable -, a $10 bottle from Costco - filthy when a similarly priced Italian wine is perfectly ok - or a $100 bottle from a Napa or Sonoma tasting room, where I'd prefer a $10 wine from the Languedoc, I just don't like them.

There are exceptions - Hanzell and Ridge (Santa Cruz Mountains) spring to mind but they're still triple the price of similar quality from elsewhere. Which of course is why they can't export the stuff.