Ep 559: 12 Great Wines Under $20

Wine for Normal People

Alcohol, Lifestyle, Arts, Education, Food, Wine, Dining, Grapes

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

I think people are feeling a bit of a worry about the economy worldwide, so I thought I’d make some suggestions for inexpensive wines that taste like expensive ones! Almost every wine is below $18, although I put under $20 in the title because it seemed punchier!

I did lots of research to make sure these were way below US$20 in markets across the US and around the world. For inclusion in the list they had to be great wines that I would buy even if they weren’t such great values (and with tariffs, they will be less good values, but still inexpensive). These are wines I drink regularly. Even though there are inexpensive versions of some wines (Fiano, Chianti, etc), I did not include them because I don’t think the inexpensive versions of those are good enough. This list is the cream of the crop below $20.

For each wine I discuss the background, the flavors, and why they are inexpensive (in case you are suspicious!). Some wines included: Picpoul, Crémant de Loire, Côtes de Bordeaux and Argentinean Malbec from Cafayate (different from Mendoza)

Enjoy the list!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Wine for Normal People, the podcast for people who like wine, but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:15.8	I'm your host Elizabeth Schneider, author of the Wine for Normal People book and Certified Wine Dork.
0:21.3	This show is brought to you by my exclusive partner, Wine Access. Their site has outstanding,
0:27.3	curated wine selected by a team of credentialed experts that taste thousands of bottles a year to make
0:33.1	sure we get the best wine. Going to Wine Access.com slash normal is like walking into a wine shop where
0:38.6	all the wines are made by producers who respect the land, care about the wine quality,
0:43.4	and aren't just awesome. Check out the site and my wineclub, wine access.com slash normal. Do it today.
0:49.6	Listen in the middle of the show for more details. So I took last week off to go on spring break with my
0:58.8	younger daughter. It was super fun. We saw six on Broadway, for those of you who are Broadway fans,
1:05.5	had lots of fun and did lots of good eating. I was with my daughter, so not a ton of great drinking,
1:10.8	but good eating and had a great my daughter, so not a ton of great drinking, but good
1:11.5	eating and had a great week off. So thank you for giving me a week to do some fun stuff with my
1:19.1	family. I am back this week. And I think that given some global events right now, and I am working on getting some guests to talk about
1:31.6	the impact of certain said tariffs on the wine industry. And I think that that should be pretty
1:39.9	interesting. Although in the meantime, you could go back and listen to the Friends of the Pod
1:43.9	show with Daniel Posner from Grapes, the Wine Company. That's available to everybody. And it does go over
1:49.9	the three-tier system, which should give you a sense of how all of this is going to affect the
1:54.1	wine industry. Many of you have asked me about it if you're on Patreon. I've been posting regularly
1:57.9	about the tariffs and what that's going to do. But if you're
2:01.3	listening to this even much later, and that is no longer a thing, what I'm going to tell you
2:07.3	is this show, I said great wines under 20 bucks, but this is almost like less than 15 in some
2:16.0	cases. I am giving you 12 wines.
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