We want good cheap wine that isn’t necessarily good wine. I mean, we don’t give a damn about bouquet or “redolent of sun-warmed nutmeg with a slight taste of mink.” We’re not connosieurs. I’m not even sure I know how to spell it.
We want something that doesn’t taste like rubbing alcohol nor grape juice that’s been too long in the fridge. We want a nice red to drink with the occasional steak dinner that won’t put us out too much money and will be palatable. We (being myself and Gunslinger) have each had such a wine before, but not together, and neither of us can remember what it was (mine was something from Riunite, and his was something that came in a bottle etched with leaves).
Neither one of us drinks much on a regular basis. When we do, we both tend towards things that taste more or less non-alcoholic, like flavored malt beverages rather than beer, and daquiris or rum and cokes or Long Island iced teas rather than martinis or straight-up tequila. So wine that tastes too much like alcohol would turn us off.
So. Cheap wine that tastes like neither rubbing alcohol nor grape juice, is readily available, and will go good with a steak. Shoot.