Now I don't buy many bottles of wine, only around the holidays. And I have just a small selection that we all seem to like. So it really is a pretty good sample of how prices, or at least wine prices are in this part of the country.

And it turned out to be a big surprise. Prices were most definitely not higher. In fact, many bottles were on sale. And the ones that weren't were, if anything lower than I remember.

But how can this be? Inflation is everywhere we are told.