Between school and work, it's hard for WhineNCheese and I to find time to let our tippling selves run free... but I just picked up a Gaetano D'Aquino Asti Spumante on Sunday.

I burst through the front door and screamed "Let's drink!" and waved the bottle around while simultaneously hopping in efforts to take my boots off. WhineNCheese just looked at me and said.. "but I'm studying" and shook her head incredulously.

To my defense. it had been a very hard week. A very very hard week.

But no review for now because I can't go against my better conscience and be a bad influence on my dear Whine.

but soon. very very soon.

And I just have to note. That WhineNCheese and I are oenophiles. but very budget-concious oenophiles (read "starving students who like drink"). Expensive wines are all well and good, and throwing down $50-100+ a bottle on a dinner (where you really really need to impress her, her family, or your guest, whatever) is fine. God knows there are enough people out there lauding the "complex qualities and mouth feel" of whatever $XXXXX wine. But sometimes you just want something to drink while you hang out with friends, or something to drink with a meal, or a crowd pleaser that's going to get a lot of people to warm up and have fun, all without gouging into your rent money.

And yes. there really are great wines for the price out there! And WhineNCheese and I have taken on the arduous task of drinking all of these and letting you know exactly what we think (sigh. it's a dirty job. but someone has to do it)

Expensive.. does not necessarily equate "good". Inexpensive does not necessarily equate bad.  After all.. isn't good or bad all in the eye of the drinker?

So... many of the wines that we look at here are going to be budget friendly. You can glow with us on our successful choices... and grimace with us at our not-so-successful ones. But it's a learning experience. Whine and I are still learning, and hopefully in that process you can pick something up too. Or at least laugh at us while we figure things out in the wide world of wine.

Anyway. update will come soon.

- Our Daily Red, out!