Call them bum wines, street wines, fortified wines, wino wines, or twist-cap wines. Whatever you call these beverages for the economical drunkard, this page explores the top five. So curl up on a heating duct and enjoy...

Mar 11, 2020 · You can snub your nose all you want, at a bum wine, but we have all drunk the fermented Kool-Aid at least once in our lives. These liquid staples of urban America are bound to treat you right until you treat them wrong.

Jan 10, 2014 · In which we gracefully taste street wines and tell you which ones are actually kind of delicious, and which taste like something fermented in a bathroom.

Flavored fortified wine or tonic wine is inexpensive fortified wine that typically has an alcohol content between 13% and 20% alcohol by volume (ABV). They are made from various fruits (including grapes and citrus fruits) with added sugar, artificial flavor, and artificial color.

Jan 20, 2011 · The "bum wine" has many names: street wine, brown bag wine, wino wine, fortified wine or twist-cap wine (although a lot of decent wines have twist caps now, too).

Of all the vividly-named screw-cap wines (or bum wines, if you prefer) that were born in the 1950s, only a handful survive to this day. The mightiest of them all, indeed, “The American Classic” as its label proudly boasts, is Thunderbird, a creation of the E & J Gallo Winery of Modesto, California.

Avaliable in various nauseating tropical flavors that coat your whole system like bathtub scum, but only the full "Red Grape Wine" flavor packs the 18% whallop. Liquor stores are starting to be infiltrated by a 13% variety of MD 20/20 Red Grape.

Feb 6, 2019 · One example of a massive change in taste took place in the U.S. in the decades following WWII, where in the course of about twenty years American wine consumers changed their preference from sweet wine to dry. In the 1950’s and 60’s 70% of the wine sold in the U.S. was cheap, sweet and alcoholic.

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In my opinion, I rank the Night Train Express and Thunderbird as #1 and #1A in the bum wine world. Both were made by Gallo wines, even though they never want to admit it. These guys are sitting on a goldmine and just don't realize how to promote these fine wines to the masses.