CAN SOMEONE HELP US NOVICES BY TELLING US WHAT ARE BAD WINES!

[stevebody]

My suggestion is: just try to taste as many wines as you can. In the purely subjective sense, whatever wine YOU like is a good wine - for you. In the larger sense - such as what us wine geeks think of as "good" - I've found that even some normally bad wineries can produce the occasional nice bottle. I had that universal Gallo prejudice for years but the Gallo Sonoma is pretty hard to find fault with. Ditto for Fetzer, which I just wouldn't touch for years...until I had one. Then I liked some of them. And Delicato, one of the cheapest grocery wines, is pretty good across the board.