Shopping & Wine

foreverskint

ooh now we're on my favourite subject.:j

The co-op are my current fav for wine offers ( oh did I mention I work there too:p ). They have had some fab wines on offer recently and currently have some good 3 for £10.00 wines.

Our fav glug-in-a-box wine is Asda's south african red at around £10.50 for a 3 ltr box. Cheap but very drinkable.

Wine tends to be counted in our grocery budget, as I tend to think of it as part of the meal.

newleaf

I definitely recommend Lidl. Plenty of choice of wines for under £3 a bottle, so no need for drastic measures (abstinence? Pah!).

Brassic

Excellent, just been in and change the house red to the south african red - cheers forever skint. I did look at the wine warehouses, and may see if we can do that next time.

Cheers All!

nearlyrich

I use wine clubs too, often have good offers, it's cheaper than the pub.

Brassic

nearlyrich wrote:

I use wine clubs too, often have good offers, it's cheaper than the pub.

What's one of them then? :beer: :rotfl:

Gingham_Ribbon

Netto do some surprisingly good wines. Morrisons have some reasonably priced ones too. Some of the boxed wines are good, and if you're only having a glass now and again, they are very good value since you don't 'need' to finish them off to stop them going off!

smokey112

Gingham_Ribbon wrote:

Netto do some surprisingly good wines. Morrisons have some reasonably priced ones too. Some of the boxed wines are good, and if you're only having a glass now and again, they are very good value since you don't 'need' to finish them off to stop them going off!

I would love to meet the person who made the instruction "wine will last for 6 - 8 weeks when opened " on the side of a wine box. - mine never last 68 hrs

[STRIKE]WE[/STRIKE] I love wine - and consider it part of my grocery budget -one point to note when you buy any 6 wines from ASDA you get 10% off - I bought a rather drinkable Chilean Chardonnay - 6 btls for £16 - but everyone has different tastes

Ang
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Gingham_Ribbon

smokey112 wrote:

I would love to meet the person who made the instruction "wine will last for 6 - 8 weeks when opened " on the side of a wine box. - mine never last 68 hrs

Ours often last for about a month or more, unless we have people round in the evening (who aren't driving.)

thriftmonster

We tend to look for half price stuff in Tesco ie £6 down to £3 or their own Chilean merlot - £2.98 or Muscadet - £2.88. Lidl is good if you want the bottles to look a bit more upmarket for the same price and most of the wine is good - get one bottle at a time to try it.
I feel better now I know some people don't include wine in their food budget - I couldn't see how to get mine down including wine - I might try doing food and alcohol budgets separately

JoeyEmma

There was an interesing article in the Guardian about half price wines in supermarkets. Somebody wanted to know how much a half price bottle of wine was really worth.

It basically said that if it is £8 reduced to £4, then really the wine is only worth £5. Supermarkets plan all their special offers really carefully and just because it once was for sale at £8, it doesn't actually mean it was ever £8 bottle quality