Do you drink wine?

[OakLeaf]

So the big question is what do you consider expensive or too expensive for a 750ml bottle of wine.

Depends on the occasion! We've found a pleasant cheap jug wine that's perfectly fine for an ordinary dinner at home. Depending on the occasion, the company, the wine, we can spend quite a bit, too. Price doesn't always correlate with quality, either, there's a lot of fashion involved. Not just pricing where the market will bear, which is always there, but different varietals come in and out of fashion, which affects the price by supply and demand.

Robert Sinskey is another California biodynamic producer. We visited their tasting room a couple of years ago and enjoyed everything we tasted. IIRC, Heller Estate is working on biodynamic certification as well, but I'm not sure about that, and they haven't got it yet in any case.


PS to alpinerabbit: I wouldn't be surprised if biodynamic wines are much more available in Switzerland than they are in the USA. The international organization (Demeter) is based in Brussels and well represents the major winemaking regions in Europe (apparently excepting France - not surprising). When we were in Austria a few years back, most restaurant menus offered several wines identified as biodynamic as well as a selection of organic wines.

(Also remember that "organic wine" in the USA includes the winemaking process, and is different from "wine from organically grown grapes.")