Ranting on the nature of wine writing

[Tyrrell]

What I find frustrating is that in material I read on wines and such frequently mentions extraordinary and well-known wines. However, these wines are by virtue of their fame and quality priced out of the range that I can experience without investing great portions of my disposable income. As a result the wines that I've read the most about are wines that I've never tasted. I read about Krug champagne or Penfold's Grange and I think to myself "that sounds tasty I should go nab myself a bottle” but when I show up at my friendly local wine merchant I find prices that are comfortably into three big ugly digits of American dollars.

I'm not suggesting that anything could be done to change the situation, or implying that good low cost wines don't exist. I'm just venting my frustration that the wines I drink are only rarly the same ones that I read about.