Personally, I LOOOVE wine.com, because I can get 90+ rated wines for under $20 (they have a search function for that!) and never have to talk to a human about what I am buying.

Oh, and you can apparently run cheap vodka through a Brita pitcher and end up with divine stuff, though Svedka is a nice affordable brand that doesn't suck anyway.

And Gin should always be the good stuff. Period.