Great 'Your fave sub-£5 wines' Hunt

greenalien_2

For cheap fizz, Spanish Cava is much better value than Champagne, and often tastes better as well. Tesco's Cava Rose is particularly good value at under £4 per bottle.

yorica

I find this website absolutely invaluable for buying inexpensive highly rated wines.

http://www.supermarketwine.com/

kingbing

Most of the BOGOF and half price deals are just a con. The wines were never worth £7.99, or whatever. Frankly they're barely worth half that.

One exception is Torres Vina Sol. While normal retail price is around the £6 mark, it can be had for £4.50 or so. Vina Sol is so much better than virtually any other white wine in it's price range, that it's embarrassing. I know a few people who drink very expensive wines (>£50) regularly, but who revert to Vina Sol as a mid-week easy going white.

Miss_L_3

Wine: Casillero del Diablo Cabernet Sauvignon
Year: 2008
Price: £4.71
Where: Tesco (Special offer at the moment) also often on offer in Sainsbury's

Plaitey

Wine: Gran Tresor from Spain
Year: ??
Price: £3.54 from Tesco
Excellent red wine at a bargain price!! Nicer than some Rioja's. Also been mentioned in Good Food magazine.

Shingleberg

My partner and I are really into Rose at the moment, and our favourite one is also one of the cheapest around! Apparently it's won quite a few awards, but I imagine lots of people are put off by the bottle and the price...

Tesco's own Portugese Rose (it has no other name on the label) - £2.98 a bottle.
It comes in a Matteus-shaped bottle, with a really cheap looking flowery label.

We have tried MANY different Roses, but keep going back to this one after disappointing bottles which cost two or three times the price.

Try it!:beer:

sillywilly

I read an article about cheap wine recently. A wine that is being sold by the supermarkets at £5 a bottle - discounted or not i.e BOGOF or half price etc - actually costs the manufacturer 50p to make.

All the other costs are duty - VERY high, transport, marketing, packaging and of course a profit to the end seller - the supermarket.

I agree with others that the initial price - say £8.99 down to £3.99 is a load of BS.

Most of the bars near us sell a large glass of wine for £5 + when you know you can get 3 BOTTLES for a tenner that are just as good it shows what a racket alcohol sales are.

istan99

We tend to like a good sauvignon blanc and the best one we currently find is:

wine: Nederberg Reserve Sauv. blanc
Year: 2008
Price: £4.00
Where: Asda

this wine is currently down from 6.79 to 4.00. it recently won a silver medal in the wine challenge for 2009 and is a great, fruity, light white, not too gooseberry or grassy.

Isaactheork

I find that most of the wine at Netto is under a fiver and although I'm no wine buff they are all pretty good.

Paul_VW

Wine: Hock
Year: not stated
Price: £2.80
Where: Co-op

this wine is a great easy drinking wine, its better than some of the cheap wine you get in the "big four"