How can Lidl sell wine this bad??

Nirvana9

Zanderman wrote: »

Yup, you were wrong! £2 is cheap, and 'wine' at that price will be cheap. So far so as expected.

Your problem seems to be that it was 'English' and you trusted it because of that. But it wasn't 'English' wine - it was 'British' wine.

British Wine is a phrase used solely for cheap weak wines made from imported concentrate - nearly every supermarket sells them if you look hard enough. Usually a bit too sweet and a bit too weak (8% is normal). Never, ever, buy 'British' Wine if you like wine.

But don't confuse it with English Wine - that's a totally different, rather classy (usually) product, made from grapes grown in English vineyards. And often more expensive than French or German equivalents.

Cheap ' British' - avoid. Pricey 'English' - worth trying.

Look here for more info: http://www.english-wine.com/confusion.html

Oh, I had no idea there was a difference between British and English wine. Thanks

Edwardia

Wine should be more expensive so that we drink reasonably good wine and not badly made rubbish.

Also, because I read in the Evening Standard tonight about how one of the columnists called an ambulance after finding a 14 yr old girl passed out, drunk on the pavement. The girl's mother, a GP, summoned from a dinner party by her daughter's friends, demanded to know why the paramedics were taking her daughter to A&E.

It seems that since 1980, alcohol has become 69% cheaper, relative to income and this is partly responsible for the rise in underage drinking. I don't see much wrong with a 17 yr old drinking providing s/he isn't passed out/puking in the street, being violent, stealing or driving. But fourteen year olds, nine year olds.. it's just wrong.

If booze were dearer, then kids would find it less affordable, and people would be less able to go out at the weekend and make town centres no go areas.

aweebargain

I bought this and used for cooking Red Wine Jus which was lovely with the beef. It was no different from the last time when I used a more expensive merlot.

Stephen_Leak

Zanderman wrote: »

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Never, ever, buy 'British' Wine if you like wine.

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Good advice.

I always joke that I like to buy one bottle of Liebfraumilch at Christmas, just in case I have a guest that doesn't like wine.

I've also noticed a lot of cheap white wines made from the Trebbiano grape appearing on the supermarket shelves. This grape is evidently the second most widely planted grape variety in the world, yet it produces, at best, mediocre wines. Why? Because most of it is used to produce wine vinegar. Another one to avoid.

geordie_joe

Edwardia wrote: »

It seems that since 1980, alcohol has become 69% cheaper, relative to income

That is complete rubbish........ The week before I got married, very end of 1976, I started a new job and took home exactly £14 for my first weeks wage. Beer then was 10p per pint, so I could have bought 140 pints of beer with my weeks wages.

How many pints can you buy with a weeks wages these days?

According to the Telegraph it was £2.80 per pint 2 years ago, so it must be at least £3 now. So, £3 X 140 = £420.

That's £1680 per month take home pay, and there is no way I take home that much. In fact, I would say that I can now buy half the beer now that I could buy back then.

All they have done is twist the figures, taken the average wage then, when most people had low wages, and taken the average wage now where we have a lot on low wages but quite a lot on very high incomes, which increases the average out of all proportion.

Of course, they also hope that you are not old enough to remember the prices back then, or don't have the skills to do the maths.

They also rely on you not realising that the chancellors have been increasing the tax on alcohol every year for at least the last 40 years.

outtawork

Sainsburys are doing an offer of 2 bottles of Meadow Brook. £5 I usually get 1 white,1 red for cooking. Is the Lidl £2 wine suitable for cooking?
Sometimes Tesco do the same offer 2 bottles of wine £5, Silver Bay point.

Lynsey

Asda do a cheapie for £2.48 per bottle:

DEVILS COVE RED - produced by First Cape.

They also do a WHITE for the same price.

Lynsey

rachbc

Nirvana9 wrote: »

bottles at £2.

There was your first mistake

It's a British wine

And there was your second

as if it was going to be nice!

Edwardia

geordie_joe wrote: »

That is complete rubbish........ The week before I got married, very end of 1976, I started a new job and took home exactly £14 for my first weeks wage. Beer then was 10p per pint, so I could have bought 140 pints of beer with my weeks wages.

How many pints can you buy with a weeks wages these days?

According to the Telegraph it was £2.80 per pint 2 years ago, so it must be at least £3 now. So, £3 X 140 = £420.

That's £1680 per month take home pay, and there is no way I take home that much. In fact, I would say that I can now buy half the beer now that I could buy back then.

All they have done is twist the figures, taken the average wage then, when most people had low wages, and taken the average wage now where we have a lot on low wages but quite a lot on very high incomes, which increases the average out of all proportion.

Of course, they also hope that you are not old enough to remember the prices back then, or don't have the skills to do the maths.

They also rely on you not realising that the chancellors have been increasing the tax on alcohol every year for at least the last 40 years.

Very impressed with the view you put forward thank you for posting it. I shall have to work this out for me and OH

mazza111

I bought a red wine from Tesco last week, was a brit wine, £2.50 a bottle. It was rather nice :eek:

I don't normally like red wine but thought this was rather nice.

My fella, who does like red wine, thought it was tasteless though and thought it tasted more like a ros!.

So not all cheapies are bad ones. I'm actually shocked that I found a red wine I like, so finished the bottle and will stick another couple of bottles in this week