 Hello, NJRoot22.com here with a quick, hopefully quick explanation of This is a high end of the cheap wine. This is something we've picked up What we've had before but it's called 14 hands and This is a wine called hot to trot red blend It's a it's a 2017 Columbia Valley, I guess that's California And it's 13 and a half percent alcohol This passes the two-bottle test even at 13 13.5 We typically find that the lower alcohol wines do not pass There's a 50-50 chance they don't pass the two-bottle test where I don't feel like utter garbage the next day But this bottle of wine is 10 bucks in most stores. Let me focus again on it Ten bucks, which is the high end of my cheap wine category I mean if I go anything above $10, it's we're getting it to moderate price And when you're in the 20 and $30 range you're you're getting it to the higher price once then we're not even gonna go Near the $20 or I mean a hundred dollar bottle of wine. No way. Why? Anyway real quick I like the flavor of this this is it has a Very pleasing flavor. I'm not gonna get into exactly the nuances on which part of my tongue Hey, the fifth quadrant and their left side of my tongue liked it. No This has it's just a very very very well Rounded flavor. It's you could tell that the winemakers probably put a little effort into into refining Which is great, but in the end the buzz is the same It's just this flavor experience. You have for a few minutes. So why you sip it near you? Anyway, so for let's just say argument's sake of $11 with tax We're gonna do that change it's gonna end up in your like seat cushions somewhere. So for a two-bottle night It's $22 Now hang on a second. I'm gonna Don't walk over here and get this bottle of wine We talked about this recently This Rex Goliath we talked about it like two videos ago the ones that have 13 and a half. I see it's not focusing 13 and a half percent Think it's focusing the Rex Goliath is 1099 So it's like the $12 for a two-bottle $22 so $10 difference In a night, you know, let's just say you drank two of these a night and One of these a night 10 say you drank 365 days a year. That's $3,650 10 times 365. Yeah For the same net result. I mean the level of pleasure I get with this Again, I water it down. So like maybe maybe some of you sit there and you Quantum analyze every damn sip you take It's so much better. No The the pleasure factor is like one tick like out of a hundred. So if this is a 57 pleasure factor out of a hundred. This is a 58 maybe a 59 It's so like a one or two percentage points better in taste in my opinion. I mean, I Don't know it's kind of subjective as they say and and But I don't think paying $3,650 a year for two of these a night versus $3,650 less dollars a year for one of these a night. Well That's another story. This Rex Goliath 13.5 is gonna go away. I found it luckily So that's it I mean, I'm not gonna talk about the finishes or the pairings or the or how it lingers or anything like that This is a good tasting wine. If you want to treat yourself It's just something that's a little bit on a little bit better. I mean better again is subjective After a couple glasses anyway, I think that the taste kind of numbs itself out and I Think this Rex Goliath is fine But again, everybody wants there maybe everybody's a perfectionist and they just want to have this perfect utopia of taste sensation, I don't know It's a fascinating industry to say the least So This passes the test costs more It's up to you whether you want to spend the money or not on it I don't think it's necessary if you if you're swimming in in dollar bills And you just don't know what to do with it. Sure. Why not? You know live a little as they say live a little but some people want to keep to keep their money You know Preserve and this is what you'll want to do instead if you can find the 13.5 do not buy the 13.0 You will regret it. I promise you Look at the Rex Goliath free range red video if you want to know why it there's something they did something to it So I'm not gonna Go, I'm not gonna use Rex Goliath as a comparison anymore, but I've talked about them enough And if you have any suggestions for any cheap wine that that you think is not only good like I said any wine in limited moderation It's fine but if the You got to try the two bottle test or whatever your mid-range test is where you know if a hangover equals bad wine So if you have anything, please Send some tips or email us. We have all our info in the comments below And that's it so enjoy your wine beer or spiked Seltzer or whatever you drink these days, but wine is what we're talking about and oh by the way speaking of a spiked seltzer We are going to Do like a guest review of that even though this is cheap wine reviews. I'm gonna bring up the spiked seltzer in the next Week or two because I have a lot to say about well not a lot, but I have a pretty profound Statement about it So stay tuned