Mondavi makes some really nice reserve wines, but their mass produced vintages are good for table wine, just what we were looking for. Our first and most visceral blow came in the way of the change in wine tasting. We immediately left and shook the dust off of our shoes and proceeded up the road. We decided to try some of the smaller vintners. Again five bucks, but you tasted four wines that they were pushing that day.
Taste is the right word.
You barely get enough wine to swirl in the glass. I took a look around for a cracker or piece of pretzel and saw nothing. I swear on a case of 1976 Rothschild's Mouton Cadet that no one offered anything to accomodate the tasting process. We heard this far too many times. Occasionally we would run across another poor couple who actually were looking for some good wines.