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zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yours has a 99 at the end: £2.99
His probably starts with a 99 £99.

Mine was from the skip I found behind Poundland. hic! :beer:

Good to see you back lemonjelly! What are the gigs in November?

Nikkster

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

You should definitely read this article.....:D

http://www.goodwineonline.co.uk/acatalog/The_real_value_of_wine_.html

I need a payrise before I can follow those suggestions.

Champagne tastes and lemonade budgets over here...
= whatever is on offer.

[NICE MODE OFF] now if house prices weren't so high, I'd be spending less of my wage servicing my mortgage which would leave more money for vino [/NICE MODE OFF]

Whatever the true value of this wine, it's going down rather well

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Nikkster wrote: »

Whatever the true value of this wine, it's going down rather well

LOL... Quite right too.

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

Yup, mine was under a fiver :rotfl:. Around £4.50 I think. It's apparently £8ish a bottle when not on offer, depending on how much you believe that (I don't).

We buy that stuff only on its offer prices, ever. There are always those 'offers'. We have a wine label book to give a rough idea of whether we liked previous offerings from that label/ vineyard. Many big labels / mass produced seem to be indistinguishable year in year out anyway.

Other price bands also have offers, especially near bin ends....less at big supermarkets, though sometimes. Sainsburies own label champagnes are good, and good value, if you aren't a label chaser. I don't buy any thing else there but did pop in last year for bottles of champagne for any visitors/ guests etc.....and family use. Pretty sure they were on a deal when I bought them. Suffice to say there aren't any left ( pretty sure I bought 18 bottles, most very dry, some a little sweeter...but not sweet. ....not a heavy Christmas or year following, and seeing I don't drink.....)....

Edit....and yet, ask me where I put my keys last Christmas....

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

We buy that stuff only on its offer prices, ever. There are always those 'offers'.

Natch. I only buy wine when it's at it's offer price.

Otherwise I pop over to Aldi.

But usually I have a stock, so there is no need for panic buying. And if I'm going to a friend's I'll take what I drink myself. Unlike someone at work who apparently has a collection of crap wine they don't want, specifically to take to parties etc :eek:

PasturesNew

I hate wine, I dislike all wine. I don't drink wine.
Maybe it's because I've only ever been offered some from the cheapest of nasty bottles..... but, you don't go spending lots of money on something expensive "in case you like it" when your current experiences have been that it's all vile.

I don't mind a spot of Asti Spumante though - and that pink stuff Nikkster brought here was nice. I like bubbles, but not champagne (although that "cheap !!!!" rule might apply here too, who knows).

Of course, the trouble for me is that it takes about 1/2" of booze in a glass to get me squiffy, so no point drinking alcohol on that basis.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

I hate wine, I dislike all wine. I don't drink wine.
Maybe it's because I've only ever been offered some from the cheapest of nasty bottles..... but, you don't go spending lots of money on something expensive "in case you like it" when your current experiences have been that it's all vile.

I don't mind a spot of Asti Spumante though - and that pink stuff Nikkster brought here was nice. I like bubbles, but not champagne (although that "cheap !!!!" rule might apply here too, who knows).

Of course, the trouble for me is that it takes about 1/2" of booze in a glass to get me squiffy, so no point drinking alcohol on that basis.

I'm not sure whether you're saying I offered you the cheapest of nasty bottles or not :rotfl:

Though it was quite cheap as it wasn't very boozy :money:

Judging by the fact that you liked the wine I brought over and Asti - I'm not surprised you don't like champagne (which is usually quite dry).

Anyway, you can't say you don't like *any* wine. Though I expect Hanish wouldn't classify what I brought round as wine anyway

It was only on the way home that I realised I really should have bought us G+Ts

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I hate wine, I dislike all wine. I don't drink wine.
........

I don't mind a spot of Asti Spumante though - and that pink stuff Nikkster brought here was nice. I like bubbles,

You are simply discriminative. If more people were then there might be fewer problems. No reason any one should drink what they dislike IMO.....unless its their medicine or healthy. Unlike veg which I will train myself to enjoy ( urgh, I think I should start with grilled bitter chicory this winter ...really dislike that) I cannot see the point in training myself to enjoy ouzo or pastis. I know I can swallow some renard down politely when socially useful, and why bother to try and like it...its never going to benefit me, better to dislike it IMO. I just which I couple have a glass or two of something nice for pleasure , let alone metabolise it as I used to when young or how my father does. Doesn't get hangovers. Gets drunk, but not hungover.

michaels

Judging by the amount of local fireworks this evening the fiscal squeeze has considerably diminished this year in St Albans...I guess the number of new cars locally and the price and speed of selling of local houses should probably already have made me realise this.....

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Judging by the amount of local fireworks this evening the fiscal squeeze has considerably diminished this year in St Albans...I guess the number of new cars locally and the price and speed of selling of local houses should probably already have made me realise this.....

This week the DM put St A in one of the top positions for "number of £1 million houses sold". More there than Scotland
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2815066/More-1m-homes-sold-St-Albans-Scotland-66-exchange-hands-Hertfordshire-city-far-2014-number-seven-figure-sales-soar.html