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Wine is a beverage like no other; it has the ability to make ordinary meals extraordinary, has a fascinating history and changes significantly from year to year. People discuss wines and their relative virtues in a way that they do with no other food or beverage. It’s generally agreed that the more you know about wine, the more you enjoy it, something you can’t say about Coke or orange juice. And of all its many merits, the one that has inspired the most love and poetry, the one that is simply the most fun is that it gets you crunked!
Yet some wines are better at intoxicating than others. Some reasons are obvious; wines with a high alcohol % (14-15% abv or alcohol by volume) require fewer glasses than those with relatively low alcohol contents (10-12%) and a wine that is absolutely delicious will inspire zealous sipping. We know you’ll also drink with more gusto if the wine doesn’t cost too much. However if a wine is too tannic (dries out your mouth too much) or the alcohol is not balanced by the fruit, the imbibing will be more labor than fun.
With that in mind we gathered inexpensive wines from around the world and systematically got drunk off all of them. We did this for you, because we care. We spit out the crappy wines, so you can drink the good ones. The following wines are Debonair’s selections for best wines to get you hooched-up, hammered, cock-eyed and crapulous or, simply inebriated.
If your trying to drink something scrumptrulescent and see double for about the price an imported six pack try Berger Grüner Veltliner 2005 1L ($10.99). Sold in a squat, green 1 liter bottle with a pilsner-like crown cap, this wine got us tipsy in less than 30 minutes because its floral minerality had us almost a full-fledged chug.
