This is tough. If you buy something too nice for peeps that don't really like good wine you're wasting your money. If you try and buy wine for peeps that really know their wine you're likely to undershoot their preferences. I'm just a dumb ass kid from a little town in Iowa that went to an eng/ag school so I don't actually know ****. I'm not drinking from a bottle in paper sack but also not drinking from the top shelf. I have a little niche of $16-25 French wines I like. For true wine peeps I opt for a true French champagne because that's a universal. Other than French Rhone blends it's the only thing I am confident in.