Three Nine Wine is about discovering interesting wine while keeping your average cost per bottle around $9.99.

Now this doesn’t mean that every bottle of wine you buy has to be priced at $9.99. What it does mean though is that if you enjoy a $30 bottle of wine, then you’ll need to find four good $5 bottles to get your average back below $10 dollars.

A quick illustration:

Bottle 1 – $30
Bottle 2 – $5
Bottle 3 – $5
Bottle 4 – $5
Bottle 5 – $4.95
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Total cost: $49.95
divided by 5 bottles
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Average bottle price = $9.99

You get the idea. It’s pretty simple. We like wine, but we’re on kind of a budget.

What’s nice about this “system” is that it allows you to “splurge” on a mid-range to expensive bottle of wine once in a while as long as you have some favorite lower priced wines you can rely on to get you back on track. That’s why you’ll find our focus here will be mainly on sharing our experience searching for great values as we explore the world of moderately priced wines, but we’ll also venture occasionally into higher priced wines as well.

Now, about the name…

Well, that $9.99 target price point is obviously part of it. But the Three Nine Wine name actually comes from the technology industry where the term three nines is used to describe a level of reliability (SLA) equaling or better than 99.9%. For example, a web hosting company may offer a three nines performance guarantee, meaning that they promise their servers will be up and operating 99.9% of the time.

Ironically, five nines has now surpassed three nines as the benchmark SLA, but if we used five nines it would kind of blow the whole price point aspect in the name, so we’re sticking with Three Nine.

To help keep keep track of things here, we’re sharing our spreadsheet on value wines which includes information on (among other things) the wines we’re buying, where we’re buying them from and how much we’re paying.

Three Nine Wine is based in San Antonio, Texas, so most of the wines we try we purchase from our favorite San Antonio wine stores. Still, many of those wines should be available at wine stores across the country and around the world. Our hope is that something you read here will help you discover a great wine value in your neighborhood.

If you have a suggestion on a great value red or white wine we should try, be sure and let us know.

Thanks for visiting Three Nine Wine.