Cotes du Rhone are medium and fruity. It's supposed to be an easy drinking style, and if you like it, I think there will be no problem getting better value.
Try 'Goats do Roam' red. It is a value wine that tries to mimic the style of the cdr appellation.
I think that this one is almost entirely Grenache. (I looked it up - 100%) Grenache is also grown quite a lot in Spain, and Spanish wines are great old world wines that tend to be a little bit cheaper. Grenache is a sweet grape, so the wines can get a bit 'hot' with alcohol if they are grown in hotter climates (like Spain), but you can still get a fruity strawberry taste from other grapes.
Try merlot, and gammay for fruity and floral wines. If you liked the strawberry hints of grenache, you might like Beaujolais villages.
I really don't know what you mean by astringent here. I think that you might mean 'sour', 'tart' or acidic? Astringent is sort of like an unripe persimmon. If you dislike tartness, all wines do have a lot of that. It's OK not to like it and even not to like wine. Acidity is considered an essential part of wines, and grapes are used over other fruits because they are both high in sugar and high in malic and tartaric acid. In order to soften the acids in wine some different techniques are used. Look for 'Sur lees' on white wines. This means that there has been some malolactic fermentation to soften the malic acid. Chardonnays tend to use this technique.
But if you don't like acid much at all, and you like sweet, try fruit wines, like blackberry, blueberry, or elderberry.
Desert wines are also quite sweet and seem less acidic because of that, but they are expensive, and VERY sweet.
Anyway, if you don't like wines, that's ok. And it's ok to move down the price spectrum too, especially since you like easy drinking wines and don't seem to care much for aged and oaky. Just leaving France should help too.
thank you for advice @wolfsheed
I meant better taste by tannin in wine.(astringent )
anyway, I'll buy desert wines this weekend!!
Oh, right, tannin's drying sensation! Well, tannin comes from the seeds and skins, and is most present in red wines. Red wines are 'in' right now, especially Bordeaux, but whites are good too! Don't ignore them.
In fact, Suauterns, a white bordeaux is a sweet desert wine with a distinct taste produced by a certain kind of rot. (!) It can be some of the best, most exalted, and most expensive wine in the world because of how hard it is to get juice from these raisinated grapes, and how hard it is to harvest them. Tokaji and beerenauslese are similar in that they are sweet, rich and use botritis affected grapes as well. The taste is distinct and a bit musty.
Ice wine or late harvest wine are cheaper, and don't have the challenging taste of noble rot. Cheaper is relative here, because you will NOT find value in desert wines. They are pretty much all hard to make and expensive.
The best icewines come from Germany and Canada, and they are so expensive because the grapes are literally frozen when they are harvested, and only a little bit of juice comes out. The best of wines can age for years and develop distinctive character.
The closest that you can get to value in the sweet wines category (without going to sweetened wines, coolers etc) is late harvest wine. Some vinyards that do icewine make a late harvest wine as well that will have some of the same character, but are less sweet and rich, made from non-frozen grapes.
Anyway, have fun!