Wine of the week.

Happiness for $10 or less. Great article that has good recommendations for your week's worth of wine intake.

Here's their take on American Wines:

"I don’t usually think of American wines as great values. Too often the producers try to imitate expensive wines using artifice — mediocre cabernet sauvignon flavored with oak chips, for example — rather than making more honest wines from lesser grapes."

I concur. Except for the Pino Noir collections from the Willamette Valley in Oregon. Those are good.