Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:14:20 -0700, Walter Bright wrote: > BCS wrote: >> And there are people who will buy $5 a cup coffee when they really do >> like the $.50 stuff better. They are called snobs. > > I had fun at a wine tasting when I picked the cheapest wine of the lot > as my favorite. Hilarity ensued.
The price of wine often doesn't correlate with its quality, at least very linearly. When I was in Spain, a local wine "expert" could easily find good wine and the price was 4..10 euros per bottle. It's the same thing in Greece or Bulgaria or other cheaper wine-producing countries. The cheapest wine is actually cheaper than bottled water. In more expensive countries the same quality costs 5..20 times as much.