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Our Favorite Wine

I’m a red wine girl, and luckily, so is Will (well, red wine guy).

Actually, we are both truly beer people, so any wine experiments have to be two things: 1) cheaper and 2) accessible. I’m no oenophile. I only know the word oenophile because I’m a lexophile.

Anyway, here are our favorites:

Our Favorite Wines

We order these wines by the case. Both are inexpensive ordinarily, often on sale, and even cheaper when you buy in bulk. Plus, the labels are cute enough should you want to bring either to someone’s house for a dinner party.

The Accomplice Shiraz Wine

Ah, The Accomplice, our original favorite. How cute is that label? I was going through a Shiraz phase when we first tried this (yes, I just said “shiraz phase”) and we’ve been loyal drinkers for over two years now.

Mad Housewife Cabernet Sauvignon

Mad Housewife is newer to our wee wine cellar. I’d be lying if I didn’t say the name was one of the reasons I wanted to try this wine to start. A few bottles in, I know this will be on our re-order list.

While my wine palate is admittedly not very advanced, both of these bottles offer great taste for the value. We cheap-winers know that some bargain bottles can be… underwhelming. I assure you the bottles here will leave you appropriately-whelmed.

The Backstory #6: Fish Glasses

The Object:

The Origin: A thrift shop in downtown Champaign, Illinois.

The Backstory:

I’m generally more of a beer-drinker, but when I have wine, these are my favorite glasses. I have a set of four.

They come from a thrift store in downtown Champaign, Illinois (though, sadly, I cannot remember which…). I went to school in Champaign-Urbana (go Illini!) and was back in the area visiting a friend who’d morphed somewhat into a “Townie.” I found this set of carved-fish bourbon glasses and had to have them, even though getting them back home to Chicago on the train would be a challenge (or, at least, seem like one – I’m always nervous when there’s something breakable in my suitcase).

Will prefers these glasses we received as a house-warming gift when we moved into the new condo, so I generally have all four fish glasses to myself.

Read the rest of the series here.