Off the top of my head from pinots I've enjoyed over the last 12 months
Chat Sauvage Spätburgunder (Germany)
Erazurriz Wild Ferment (Chile)
Roaring Meg, Central Otago (NZ)
Innocent Bystander, Yarra Valley (Aus)
Newton Johnson (SA)

@dhammer53,

thank you for your information.

$35 USD+ minimum, for what's probably an 8 dollar bottle of wine in the US...sigh.

Yeah... I feel you pain. Had an apartment in CGK quite a few years ago and good juice was very expensive... I see Reimer and his boys continue to make good $$$$ in Jakarta.... ;)

For me it's about C$13 (closer to C$15 with taxes). Sometimes less, sometimes more. Rarely over C$18 (around $20 with taxes).

I don't have the most refined palate when it comes to wine... to me, it's hard to tell apart a $15 and $30 bottle. I have had some > $50 bottles and the difference is a bit clearer, but I can't afford to consume those as my go-to dinner-at-home wines!

$70+ almost exclusively white Burgundy or Champagne.

I dollar cost average....3-4 nights a week I keep it to beer.

Probably around $40 US average, I find a lot of nice bottles in the $20~$40 range.

bumping this interesting thread.... :D

For my wife the average is $10. She loves cheap pinot grigio. For me i'd say $30. I rarely buy wine but if I do it is because someone served me something good, and I wanted it again.

$30 to $50 in this part of the world for something I would pay $20 for back in Australia - sigh. What gets me is that I can buy a case of beer here for a couple of dollars less than I pay for it in Brisbane, why can't they do the same with wine?

We're in a wine club at an excellent local wine shop: those bottles are always $30-40 each and are always quite good. We've opted all-red, although they offer whites too. If I'm drinking white, it's probably a $9 Kirkland Chard or it's 100 degrees out and I'm drinking an ice cold Reisling.

Anyway, the reds. I like to grill steak, so we usually open the $30-40 bottles for those meals. For an everyday drinker, the $12 Rodney Strong Cab gets the job done. Pretty decent wine for something that's always available at Costco. I also am perfectly willing to drink any of the other Kirkland varietals in the $8-10 range....I guess that's a "rich man's Two Buck Chuck?" ;)

I'm a $15 to $20 / bottle guy.

I like Rhones, Pinot Noir (especially from France and NZ) and non-oaked whites. I've found I can drink quite well at that price point.

Pretty much all of my shopping is done at a wine shop up the road from me...K&L wines: www.klwines.com They have a 'premium' wine club - 2 bottles per month at $15-$20 each, from pretty much all over, so it's a good way to try new things.