What is a good quality brand of red wine too cook with , any recommendations.?

If there is an Aldi's in your area, check out their house brand, Winking Owl. Something like $2.89 per bottle.

To be honest, you don't need to cook with anything that costs over $8-10 a bottle. Any of the fine nuance of a good wine gets burned off in the cooking. Even restaurants that cook with wine just get something decent that's cheap to buy in large volumes.

Some of the easier ones to find are going to be pinot noir or cabernet sauvignon. If you need a larger volume, go with Black Box malbec. Otherwise, just grab a bottle and head to the cashier.

Carlo Rossi red.

The cheap stuff (as long as it's real wine, not something sweetened or flavored or fortified) is all you need. I try to only cook with Trader Joe's 2 Buck Chuck (Charles Shaw - though the price is now more than $2 it's still cheap). If I don't have any handy, I'll go to the grocery store and pick from the bottom shelf - hopefully not spending more than $6. Depending on how much the recipe calls for, you can also buy the "single serving" bottles if one will be enough. Then it's easy to store the extras (usually come in a 4-pack) to use in the future.

Generally, I try to cook with merlot or pinot noir. I think the end result is a bit more subtle. But cabernet sauvignon, syrah, malbec or zinfandel are all fine.

Here's a great article from the NY Times dispelling the myth of not cooking with a wine you wouldn't drink (and it specifically references 2 Buck Chuck)! http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/21/dining/21cook.html

Here in the UK there are a lot of great red wines.
Just look in your local supermarket.

Mainly remember that you should not cook with any wine that you would not drink.

This is the same as asking "what is good red wine?" If it is a wine you would drink with the finished dish, then use some IN the dish. As chefs say, if you wouldn't drink it, don't cook with it.

"Cooking wine" is a total abomination. It has all kinds of chemicals in it to make it last longer. Never use it. It's horrible.

But apart from that, it tends not to matter much once it's been cooked, so don't spend too much on it. What I do is buy wine in boxes for cooking with. A wine box contains wine in a plastic bag, which collapses down as you take wine out from the tap so it keeps air out and the wine stays good for months after the box is opened. The kind of wine you get in boxes won't be the best - it's like going to a restaurant and ordering the "house red". But it's perfectly drinkable, and a box containing the same as 3 bottles certainly won't cost as much as 3 bottles.

So if you can find wine boxes, a box of red that you like the look of will be as good as anything. You can use just as much as you need. I happen to live by myself so a whole bottle is always far too much unless I'm with friends! - but with a box, I can measure out what I need for the recipe, and maybe squirt out some more into a glass to drink with my dinner.