# Anyone familiar with old defunct cheap wines?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** wine\
**Created:** [February 14, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-familiar-with-old-defunct-cheap-wines/290080 "2005-02-14T21:14:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-familiar-with-old-defunct-cheap-wines/290080/41 "2022-06-12T21:17:54Z")

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Nobody has yet mentioned Captain’s Walk American Scuppernong Wine?!?

They used to sponsor “The 99er Review” on TV in Richmond, VA. The two hosts (including the great Tiger Tom…“You can’t go wrong!”) would introduce locals who would lip-sync to various popular songs. My brother and I never missed it.

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**Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-familiar-with-old-defunct-cheap-wines/290080/42 "2022-06-13T12:02:59Z")

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Anyone remember Tyrolia? It was another Gallo product and came in a giant(gallon?) green bottle. We used to mix it with sprite and drink it through a straw, cause ya know, that gets you drunk faster 😉  
They used to play the commercial for it quite often in the '80s … .  
“Drink, drink, drink Tyrolia”

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**Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-familiar-with-old-defunct-cheap-wines/290080/43 "2022-06-13T13:06:05Z")

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For the truly desperate/alcoholic, they used to sell 3-litre bottles of Frosty Jack’s:  
[![](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/58/a2/82/58a282431234f08c8b520713c431edc2.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/58/a2/82/58a282431234f08c8b520713c431edc2.jpg)

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**Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-familiar-with-old-defunct-cheap-wines/290080/44 "2022-06-13T13:26:13Z")

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I came here to post about Carlo Rossi Paisano, but it turns out not to be defunct after all. It’s still available, $17.48 for a four liter jug, quite a bargain. I would have thought that the box wines would have driven the cheap jugs out of business, but I guess not.

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**Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-familiar-with-old-defunct-cheap-wines/290080/45 "2022-06-13T13:56:27Z")

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In high school, we’d drink TJ Swan. There were different flavors - I remember Easy Nights, Magic Moments and Steppin Out.

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**Author:** ![FrostbiteFrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@FrostbiteFrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrostbiteFrank)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-familiar-with-old-defunct-cheap-wines/290080/46 "2022-06-13T18:19:10Z")

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[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fb3Cu_Xrt_g/hqdefault.jpg "Frank Zappa WPLJ") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb3Cu_Xrt_g)

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