If Trooper is your favourite craft beer, you need to head over to the beer lovers thread. data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
My usual is Shiraz. The more robust the better. I like to let it breathe in the urinal data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
Honestly, most Australian wines are fine around a fiver for me. Any more and I'm raising my expectations! This is dangerous. Twice the price does not make it twice the wine.
But a nice bottle of Barolo is a treat. Sainsbury's do one at £15 that I enjoyed. I had one at €10 in Aldi (in Germany), that was merely average. I had hoped it was a bargain, but is sadly wasn't.
M&S were doing a nice Chianti for about £6.50 (half price allegedly). Nice enough, but I'd not be paying £13 for it myself.
I can't remember the last bottle of french wine I bought. They ship us their table wine and keep the good stuff for themselves - or at least that's the prejudice that keeps me from buying it even now.
The 'Similar Threads' area on the right already suggested it, so I'm there! data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
72 pages though...
Thing with wine in the UK is you have to remember the tax etc added on top, so a wine with a £5 price tag left France with a 1€/liter price tag. That is table wine/boxed wine territory. People gravitate more towards new world wines because they're lighter and generally easier to drink.
yep, that's my wine of choice these days...
for some reason I don't appreciate french wines, but then I don't pay over 10 quid for a bottle... except when eating out, but then the cheapest there is generally 22anyway...
Peasants the lot of you!
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yep, an ex I was seeing some years ago, her parents were a member of laithwaites and I enjoyed a very nice Puglia wine at theirs once... data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
Antica Vigna Masseria Biscardo 2008
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...... for a £5 bottle.
yep, we went through a phase of googling them then stopped haha...
That's where they make their money...
It's the same here. Smaller independent restaurants will sell you 50cl of wine for 4-5 euro, but 99% of the time that wine comes from a box which cost €17-20 for 10 liters.
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