Actually in CA two bucks gets a decent bottle at trader joe's. Decent enough that I'd have a hard time differentiating it from a $20 or even $200 bottle. But I'm no wine buff, I usually stick to beer.

Back in high school all we could afford was boone's strawberry hill which was also two bucks.. now that stuff was horrible. But that was way before two buck chuck at joe's.

For reasons too numerous to entail I will be marking 19 years of sobriety in a couple of weeks but Mrs. Skidoo does love her red wines with a passion so a couple of years ago an old friend who lives in Eastern Washington was back in Nebraska to visit his mother and as they were pounding them down at dinner one evening he started raving about the big reds of the Columbia Valley so I had him turn his sommelier (the wine manager at the local supermarket in Yakima) loose with the task of selecting a case as a Christmas gift--nothing but reds and a budget of $200 shipped--and she's still talking about how it was the best present she ever got for Christmas.