 Greetings! NJRoot22.com here with a new kind of vlog today. We're gonna start talking about wines that you can pick up in the area here. This is called Cheap Wine Reviews and before we get started, let me just get rid of my my little promotional flyer here, before we get started I want to talk a little bit about what I think about the wine industry in general. I find it fascinating because I think a lot of what goes into wine is into the marketing of a wine, in the same way like for instance like there's reviews and all this fancy wording on every bottle of wine and they talk about the notes and the finish and what it pairs with. It kind of reminds me of like the art industry, you know, you know how like some artists over time build a reputation and you know they were struggling artists and their their works went for 20 bucks and then they they schmooze and they kiss butt and then they work their way around, they hobnob and and eventually they kiss ass long enough in the industry that they and they pat enough people's pockets along the way that that their art all the sudden becomes worth more. I guess it's just this weird framework in how how stuff like like art works and I think wine is the sort of the same thing how certain wineries and and they they've been in the industry for so long and certain families and so on and they they build this reputation up where like people who buy the wine don't really think about anymore they just they just are programmed in their head that oh this is a better wine but keep in mind that wine is subjective okay and the purpose here for this this new wine series I don't know how if I'm gonna do it maybe once a week I'm gonna talk about a particular brand of cheap wine we're gonna talk about how how it makes us feel like for instance you know like the marketing I want to get back to the marketing the marketing of stuff like let's say Red Bull it's they had this whole marketing thing associated with it gives you energy and this and that and people buy this stuff up it's just addictive chemicals and it doesn't it's not even good for you I don't even know what the taurine comes from like some sort of animal part I don't know but what I want to talk about is how how we rate wines it's not about the taste because that everything is subjective you may think one thing because you read the bottle or just some friend of yours some wine snob told you about this great wine wine is an individual experience and for us it's much less about the actual taste because I don't think food has to be complicated wine for us is about the effects it has on our body I like to get a nice buzz from the wine it makes me feel good okay now the flavor has a minor role in it obviously if the wine tastes like crap I'm not gonna continue buying it and or drinking it for that matter and secondly we we'd like to drink a fairly substantial amount of wine so we we judge a quality of wine the quality of a wine based on how we feel the next day and what's important here on lastly the cost I don't want to spend $30 or $50 on a bottle of wine I don't think the experience is proportional to how much you pay for it so that said we have three simple criteria it's like does it taste acceptable I mean I yes some wine has a little bit more depth so to say I mean I don't even know if I would even say that if I didn't know that type of terminology existed I wouldn't say oh wow this wine has it starts this way it lingers on my tongue that the yes when you think about anything has link lingering flavors like from fruit to to me to vegetables I don't know I mean can you really apply that same taste they're just taste buds in the end you can't really apply that that philosophy to everything I mean I don't know then it seems kind of invalid if that's not true either way red wine has a general taste I'm not gonna say oh it tastes like plum it tastes like like cinnamon it tastes like nutmeg I mean I don't don't really care you know everybody has their own personal preference so the taste is as long as it doesn't taste like crap I mean you could tell there's there's a line in the sand where you can say wow this this really has a weird taste like turpentine or it's too liquidy or you know I don't know juicy again personal preference and how we feel the next day and of course the cost I don't like spending more than ten dollars a 750 milliliter bottle ever the closer to five dollars a bottle the better for us I mean it's just that's the way it is it's an economic factor but how you we're coming up with a baseline here and I'm a big guy and and my baseline is two two bottles is my baseline because I know I've drank many two-bottle sessions or two bottle drinking nights where you know I feel fine the next day and then there's other two bottle depending on the wine I'll feel pretty pretty shoddy so the two-bottle limit is my my line in the same because you can drink one bottle or I can drink one bottle of any wine and feel perfect the next day doesn't matter how cheap or expensive it is but if I drank three bottles of any wine I guarantee you I'm not gonna feel well the next day so two bottles is my is my my my barometer your barometer may be different if you're a hundred pound woman it might be three-quarters of a bottle or four glasses of wine depending on how you pour up and third lastly I don't drink wine the way most people do and this is gonna make some people so upset I water it down and I put ice in it so because I feel hydration is important I get at least the amount of water I drink so if I drink 1.5 bottle then I'm gonna drink 1.5 or more of water sometimes it's double the amount so I'll drink three liters of water to the 1.5 liters of wine that's that's a lot of a lot of wine for sure but so you have to come up with your own personal baseline to truly be able to review which wines are good for you and these I mean I'm gonna be reviewing these two wines in the upcoming weeks as well as stuff like this this is a bottle I think was like $5.99 that that those are criteria your criteria may be different but I guarantee you that it's all that fluff and all that marketing is really just a psychological trick to get you to spend more money on a fancier bottle of wine it's it's I don't I don't buy it for one second there are some things to be considered though however I mean I'm gonna try and get to the bottom of it but some of the cheaper wines may have some added additives to them color and or flavor or both and and that that's something I'm a little concerned with I mean I'd rather have a pure wine I mean that's that's a purest mindset but I like Spanish wines as Spanish wines are Portuguese South America that type of stuff but you keep it keep an eye I'm gonna give some real real just fundamental you know pragmatic wine reviews there's gonna be no fancy oh yeah this is this way this is that way that's not true it's I think I don't buy into it for one bit so hopefully you know we're gonna talk about the differences between box wine and bottled wine and screw tops I mean I don't think I think we've been fooled long enough with all these fancy wine reviewers and bloggers that talk about wine when it's really comes down to is it a piece of crap I'm not gonna feel like crap and was it affordable so that's it so hopefully you'll enjoy this new series about wine and affordable cheap wines have a nice week ahead