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If someone offered you a taste of a $15 wine or a $150 wine but you could only taste one, which one would you pick? It seems like a silly question, but according to Robin Goldstein, if you want to drink wine that you actually like, you might be making the wrong choice. In his newest book, "The Wine Trials," Mr. Goldstein tackles the question of whether more expensive wine is truly and consistently "better" than inexpensive wine, and he does so by trusting the opinion of many, not just a few, wine experts.

The method was impressive and the results were unexpected. After spending a year traveling around the country and holding blind tastings in all kinds of venues with all kinds of wine drinkers, after pouring more than "6,000 glasses of wine from brown-bagged bottles that cost from $1.50 to $150, people actually preferred the cheaper wines to the more expensive wines by a statistically significant margin."

A lengthy introduction contains fascinating information about the effect of price, labeling and other forms of perception on our experiences of wine, but the best part is the list of recommendations -- 100 wines that cost less than $15 that "outscored $50 to $150 bottles."

Another reason to love this book is that Mr. Goldstein used information from state-controlled states to come up with widely available wines to test. That means that many of these wines are available in Pennsylvania. The following wines were among the book's top 100, which are available for regular purchase in PLCB stores. For ratings, descriptions and more recommendations, you'll have to buy the book.

• Alice White Chardonnay, $7.99 (005804)

• Geyser Peak Sauvignon Blanc, $8.99 (005741)

• Cavit Merlot, $8.99 (008977)

• Mouton Cadet, $9.99 (005742)

• Guigal Cotes du Rhone, $11.99 (008132)

• Parallele 45 Cotes du Rhone (Rose), $12.99 (006270)social