July 14 2008
The Feds are moving in to protect the two largest US mortgage lenders so the housing market doesn’t completely cave, President Bush approved offshore drilling, a move that is largely populist pandering to offset the $4 gallon of gas situation that his policies created, Anheuser-Busch, a quintessentially American company if ever one existed, is selling itself to an International company and this is just the hard news for today.
Thank God Brett Favre is joining the list with Roger Clemens as aging sports hero turned narcisstic jerk, otherwise I’d have to force myself to care about the baseball all-star game and A-Rod’s affair with Madonna during the slowest sports news week of the year.
Overall, I’m not sure if I should marvel at the resilience of the American economy and our psyche or start building a bunker in my backyard.
Sounds like a perfect time to start drinking inexpensive wine and start saving my spare change in a manner more organized than overflowing inscribed beer mugs, a wedding gift years ago turned utilitarian holder of pennies.
All of this talk in the wine industry about trading up? Ha. I’m trading down, way down. With love and respect to my friend Deb from Good Wine Under $20, I’m talking about good wine under $5.
Professionally, my wife, an editor at a publisher, is working on a book called, “Living Well in a Down Economy for Dummies.” It publishes next month. I’m not sure what tips the book includes, but doubtlessly it DOES NOT include good wine pick-ups for under $5—a feature that I’ll do here off and on for the next week or so.
My first pick is the 2006 Covey Run Columbia Valley Gewurtraminer—a pleasant quaffer with more mojo than is deserved at $5, and the package finish is quality too, an area that gets short shrift on the bottom shelf in the grocery aisle. Drink this with the bagged stir-fry from Costco that replaces the $40 Thai carryout you might have otherwise purchased.
My review can be found here.
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