He had brought red supermarket wine too; they chilled it in the Pacific.
In New York the only supermarket wine is cooking sherry, and Sunday is for beer alone.
The French called 1987 Bordeaux a supermarket wine.
The growers called their second-rate 1977's "supermarket wines," meant for early consumption.
Not too many years ago, poor vintages and wines from marginal regions were dismissed by Frenchmen as "supermarket wines."
The 1987's are fine for present drinking - the French call them supermarket wines - and both the 1988 and 1989 wines are going to be good to excellent.
It might be argued that the prices of first-growth Bordeaux bear no relation to the world of supermarket wines.
But I am worried that the Alsace revival may not reach beyond the basic, honest certainly but not very exciting, supermarket wines.
"But what we had was supermarket wines."
I don't like supermarket wine being over priced only to be discounted and i don't like places that are constantly on teh discount sites.