Talk:Jug wine

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Not to sound like a smartass, but wouldn't a jug wine drinker be a wine drinker and find jug wines unpalatable? If you don't wish to use the phrase 'wine snob' it's o.k. with me, but perhaps we should come up with a different phrase. Yours truly and madly, --User:Two halves

The stereotypical 'jug wine drinker' is of limited means and is drinking the wine for intoxication rather than flavor. It is 1. one of the most inexpensive forms of commercially available alcohol (in terms of dollar per ounce of alcohol -- modify the units as you like) and is 2. dilute to a sort of ideal strength that allows rapid intoxication while making it difficult to achieve some of the more dramatic consequences of overconsumption.