Need List of Good Wines

[Brom]

"Wines... to impress a women in her 30's who started off drinking crap wine and probably still does."

Come on. What do you hope to impress her with? Your appreciation and knowledge of wine? You don't have it, you are asking a bunch of strangers for theirs.

Impress her with a fancy hot shot label? I guess you could - but that shows little respect for her if you are making that assumption.

It is what the therapists would call a grandiose gesture, buying 10 of the best bottles of you can get for a party, especially when they will mean nothing to you.

If this woman is "probably still" drinking crap wines, buying her any decent wine, because you remembered that she likes wine, should impress her as much as buying a status wine.

I suggest just buying 5 & 5 - the same red and the same white. It's a party (unless it is a wine tasting party) - you pour out that first bottle of 10 different, people say "Hey you have any more of that great tasting wine?" and you can only answer "No" and hope they like the next one just as much. Then you have to repeat 3 more times.

I have a long time friend who drinks Bud, which I can't abide. It doesn't impress her if I buy a nice Scots ale, an obscure Bbavarian or Belgian beer. Buying her a Budweiser impresses her, because it proves I am thinking of her.