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Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.

— William Bligh

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine.

— Joe Bastianich

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

Cheap wine is defined by its price, and it depends on personal spending limits. So for me, any wine under $10 is cheap.

— Deborah Harkness

For me, a $20 wine that drinks like a $40 wine in terms of complexity and interest is a value, while a $5 wine that is not very good is not a value at all in my opinion.

— Deborah Harkness

Critics have done the wine industry a lot of good overall.

— Robert Mondavi

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

— John Cleese

Wine pricing is an art - like painting.

— Joe Bastianich

I'm actually surprised how technical a lot of commercial wine production is. Things are done very much from an industrial chemistry point of view at certain price points, but that's not the impression you get with wine.

— Brian Schmidt

If you talk about Cabernet and Merlot-based value between $10 and $25, I will tell you that Bordeaux is the best value in the world.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

✗Opposing Perspectives

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.

— Anthony Trollope