Maybe we wine drinking/buying FREEPERs should make a thread and list our nonFrench favs; waddya think ?
I had to quit drinking Fontana Candida for a while: simplest Italian white plonk, but I loved it dearly. Just about any California zin from a fair-middling vintner (no, I don't mean anyone from Modesto) is a decent red. Plus, the experts think the California zins are either Hungarian berkavers or south Italian primitivo, both of them directly descended from the vines that made the legions invincible.