Wine history lesson 9: Wine is too expensive, 1972 edition

“Something can be done about wine prices”

If you could afford gas for this car, high wine prices might not have been a problem.

Some 50 years ago, when higher wine prices were “making many knowledgeable wine drinkers unhappy,” a writer named Robert McDermott suggested we buy certain wines – first, before they became popular, and second, from less well-known regions of the world to save money.

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