Wine Bargains

London_calling

Without sounding alcoholic...

Is there a board on here for sub £5 wine recommendations? E.g. Aldi's toro loco, a fantastic bargain.

Was in Calais and made a point of buying nothing over 5€ and they've all be great so far, though it's not hard to spend £7+ on not a lot in the uk. There are some good things out there!

John

McKneff

Any supermarket now sells wine sub £5. Usually under the guise of being 'half price' lol.

London_calling

true... but they are usually terrible!

Edwardia

The tax on wine in UK is much higher than in France.

London_calling

totally booking the tunnel more often...

TravellingAbuela

We like Wollemi Cabernet Shiraz and Wollemi Chardonnay from Sainsbury's. It's £5.99 a bottle but frequently on the 3 for £12 offer. That's when we stock up! It's a perfectly acceptable wine for £4 a bottle. (But, there again, my DH says I will drink anything lol!!)

blackandwhitebunny

We get the occasional good bargain at B&M, these have included wolfbass (a different cultivar from the usual) Kumala, KWV (a big SA co-op) and yesterday we found some Goats do Roam which is made by a well known SA winery. All for £3.99 a bottle.

bcl999

London_calling wrote: »

Without sounding alcoholic...

Is there a board on here for sub £5 wine recommendations? E.g. Aldi's toro loco, a fantastic bargain.

Was in Calais and made a point of buying nothing over 5€ and they've all be great so far, though it's not hard to spend £7+ on not a lot in the uk. There are some good things out there!

John

Funny you should mention this as I've just started trying out Aldi's selection.

I bought a claret at £3.89 which was very good. Bottled by one of the Calvet family who, decades ago, were a great Bordeaux negociant.

Not so impressed with the Grapevine Merlot but, at l£2.99, I shall try others in that range. No great loss if they are a disappointment.

I used to regularly buy some reds from Asda. The La Chasse Reserve Cotes du Rhone jumped from £5 to £7.XX. Similarly, the Castile Real Tempranillo which was in their 3 for £10 (£3.33 in Scotland) offer is now over £5 a bottle!

moses06

We make all our own now! But when we were buying we used to go to Morrisons and Lidl for the best offers.

LadyDee

Can somebody please recommend a really good Merlot - want to give a bottle to a neighbour for doing a job for me in the garden. I know nothing at all about red wine, but I've been told he likes Merlot so I'd like to buy him a decent one.

Thank you.

macma

LadyDee wrote: »

Can somebody please recommend a really good Merlot - want to give a bottle to a neighbour for doing a job for me in the garden. I know nothing at all about red wine, but I've been told he likes Merlot so I'd like to buy him a decent one.

Thank you.

I love Merlot and now make our own.
When I used to buy I quite liked Isla Negra