Different occasions call for different types of wine, although discount wine tastes best of all.

Most wines are referred to as quaffers; where you simply enjoy sipping and enjoy them with thinking about it too much. Then there are more expensive wines aimed to impress, with great style and finesse, for special occasions. Sitting at the beach, a cheap yet enjoyably drinkable quaffer will do very nicely. But then as a gift for someone who likes a good drop of red wine, a bit more care is needed. So how do you go about finding a good bottle from the hundreds available?

A key factor that to the quality of any wine is the region where grapes have been grown. Like any plant, grape vines grow poorly in some environments or areas and prosper in others. Can you imagine eating pineapples or mangoes grown in Tassie? Probably not as tropical fruits just don’t flourish in those climate types.

Grape vines work in the same way where some grapes produce great wines in particular regions while others fail producing ordinary, uninspired wines. It all has to do with climate and soils but the important thing to remember is the classic grape/wine region combinations, for discount wines or dare I say, cheap wines.

The below is a few great examples of cheap wine regions to take note of, based on wine types.

Chardonnay
Regions: Beechworth, Margaret River, Adelaide Hills, Geelong, Macedon Ranges, Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula, Hunter Valley, Orange, Tasmania

Riesling
Regions: Clare Valley, Eden Valley, Frankland River, Canberra, Tasmania

Semillon
Regions: Hunter Valley, Margaret River, Barossa Valley

Sauvignon Blanc
Regions: Adelaide Hills, Margaret River

Shiraz
Regions: Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Clare Valley, Heathcote, Grampians, Pyrenees, Beechworth, Yarra Valley, Hunter Valley, Canberra

Cabernet Sauvignon
Regions: Coonawarra, McLaren Vale, Barossa Valley, Clare Valley, Margaret River, Yarra Valley

Pinot Noir
Regions: Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula, Geelong, Gippsland, Macedon Ranges, Beechworth, Adelaide Hills, Tasmania.

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