The red wine thread...

KyleS1

If Trooper is your favourite craft beer, you need to head over to the beer lovers thread.

blue max

My usual is Shiraz. The more robust the better. I like to let it breathe in the urinal

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.

Chester

The 'Similar Threads' area on the right already suggested it, so I'm there!
72 pages though...

Hixs

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.

reiteration

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 22  anyway...

Hixs

Peasants the lot of you!

reiteration

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...

Antica Vigna Masseria Biscardo 2008

Thug

...... for a £5 bottle.

reiteration

yep, we went through a phase of googling them then stopped haha...

Hixs

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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