Does anyone remember drinking this stuff?
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h154/Brigitte_B/seventies/70swine.gif Popular in the 70's
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h154/Brigitte_B/seventies/70srose.jpg Sparkling rose Mateus!
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h154/Brigitte_B/seventies/70swineblack.jpg An 80's favorite!Black Tower!
There was also "Baby Duck" (and it really was like soda pop!)

I remember this:

http://www.tac-net.ne.jp/~nuvo/franzia.jpg

Franzia, a.k.a, "Box O' Wine".

Ant

Does anyone remember drinking this stuff?
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h154/Brigitte_B/seventies/70swine.gif Popular in the 70's
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h154/Brigitte_B/seventies/70srose.jpg Sparkling rose Mateus!
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h154/Brigitte_B/seventies/70swineblack.jpg An 80's favorite!Black Tower!
There was also "Baby Duck" (and it really was like soda pop!)

I remember the radio commercials.

In the 70's we drank:

MD 20/20.....(AKA - Mad Dog)

Night train

Thunderbird

Wild Irish Rose

You knew it was cheap if it said "Serve Before Friday".

And one for the lads...Watneys Party 4 or 7...

Either four or seven pints of the cruddiest beer sold in a tin resembling a depth charge...

Extremely popular at 70s parties, the fun began in getting the dam' tin open...

Yet for all that, the lemonade propbably had more alcohol content!  :P

http://library.bevnetwork.com/bottles/500/48119.jpghttp://www.boonesfarm.net/

Boone's Farm - Strawberry Hill  yummy

In the 70's we drank:

MD 20/20.....(AKA - Mad Dog)

Night train

Thunderbird

Wild Irish Rose

Actually these would fit into the “Bum Wine” category of alcoholic beverages. Calling them cheap “wines” is probably and insult to the word “cheap”.
http://www.bumwine.com/bumwine/shirt2.jpg

Check out “http://www.bumwine.com/” for some background on these wonderful drinks of the under funded.

In the 90’s it was Cisco and Boones, hardly "wines" by any stretch of the imagination. mostly sugar water with high and cheap alcohol content. In the early 90's Cisco was banned in many inner cities. It was labled as "liquid crack". and rightly so. Anyone dumb enough to drink this stuff straight was "cracked" in the head after drinking it.

Nowadays many “cheap” wines are found at your local drugstore or discount store.
Check out:
Old Fart Wine.com http://elsmar.com/pdf_files/Weird%20Pictures/OldFart%20wine.jpg
And
Cheapskate Wines  :D http://shopping.netsuite.com/s.nl;jsessionid=ac112b801f4390b4b20c75ed47dd8131f0f86584975e.e3eTaxiPc3mTe3mNbhmTchmNaO1ynknvrkLOlQzNp65In0?c=428631&sc=2&category=4
And then there’s always “Two Buck Chuck” Charles Shaw from Trader Joe's.

Actually not too bad for the price, you can do worse and pay more.  ;)

Wine is for grownups.

So, kids, let's have some wine cooooolers!

http://www.badgerwest.com/images/SeagramsStrawberryMargarita.jpg

Come to think of it, why don't we all have 15 apiece!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/08/puke.gif

Bartles & James wine coolers were a big hit in the 80's, anyone remember them?

Bartles & James wine coolers were a big hit in the 80's, anyone remember them?


"Hi, I'm Frank Bartles, and this is Ed Jaymes......Ed, quit peeing down your leg!
Ed's excited about our new flavor of wine cooler we've just released.....
...
...
...
...Ed, do you need your Depends changed?"

Yep, I remember....ahhhhh, good times!

"Hi, I'm Frank Bartles, and this is Ed Jaymes......Ed, quit peeing down your leg!
Ed's excited about our new flavor of wine cooler we've just released.....
...
...
...
...Ed, do you need your Depends changed?"

Yep, I remember....ahhhhh, good times!
oh yes i remember them

Cheap Wines Hawk Remembers:

-Thunderbird
-T.J.
-Night Train
-Velvet Rose
-Rossi
-Chateau Libido

As '80s alcohol icons go, Bartles and James were second only to Spuds McKenzie.  (Yes, Spuds, the little dog; they were marketing beer to 13-year-olds.  "Anheiser-Busch does not condone underaged alcohol consumption and donates big bucks to Just Say No programs."  No, you were marketing beer to the 13-year-olds.  That's that.  Anyway, I'm off topic.  This is about cheap wine, not cheap beer!)
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/02/beerchug.gif

One of the best wine coolers here in SC back in the 80s besides Bartles&James was Matilda Bay. As far as wine coolers go they were the BEST.

I remember this:

http://www.tac-net.ne.jp/~nuvo/franzia.jpg

Franzia, a.k.a, "Box O' Wine".


And its modern-day sibling, ca. 2000-present day:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5FG9Q1HaRWA/TnJIRcZFdvI/AAAAAAAAAeY/6YDN8FADlXc/s800/two-buck-chuck.jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rsXUtnpJ6FM/Sdz2NRfwjZI/AAAAAAAAAbo/rav6mrSe-6M/s320/two_buck_chuck_front2.jpg

Bronco Wines' Two Buck Chuck, and yes, Bronco is owned by none other than Fred Franzia.  If it's been a good year and there's a glut of grapes from other growers on the market, even the "good" grapes get thrown into the pot, and you can wind up with a surprisingly decent wine for two bucks.

http://www.bumwine.com/bumwine/ripple1.jpg

It's my blend of champagne and Ripple.
I call it Champipple!

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s137/surrealmccoy_photos/champipple.jpg