I wish that I could not tell the difference between cheap and expensive wine. What I would say is that there is plenty of bad wine that is expensive, but very little good wine that is cheap.
My wife who has a good palate, but who takes no notice of what wine is what (effectively she tastes everything blind), can instantly pick if I try and sneak in a cheap wine. I get responses along the line of "this wine is not very good - can you open a bottle of that wine we had last week instead?". So far I have not been able to fool her once out of more than a dozen tries :(
One reason to avoid the absolutely bottom end wines even if you can't tell the difference is that these wines will be much more likely to give you a massive hangover. I have had some really cheap wines that one glass is enough to make you feel like you had consumed two bottles on your own.
My wife who has a good palate, but who takes no notice of what wine is what (effectively she tastes everything blind), can instantly pick if I try and sneak in a cheap wine. I get responses along the line of "this wine is not very good - can you open a bottle of that wine we had last week instead?". So far I have not been able to fool her once out of more than a dozen tries :(
One reason to avoid the absolutely bottom end wines even if you can't tell the difference is that these wines will be much more likely to give you a massive hangover. I have had some really cheap wines that one glass is enough to make you feel like you had consumed two bottles on your own.