Current Wine Bargains!
Mar 26th 2009, 8:30 pm
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Current Wine Bargains!
This should be a sticky thread really. Couldn't be arsed searching for any old ones.
Not sure if Carrefore price regionally (don't think so). Currently on the red wine shelf is a very excellent La Mancha 2005 Cosecha Crianza at just €1.69 a go. Dominio De La Fuente. Bolder and better than it's branded Estola counter part and half the price.
Very nice and very strong
Any more nominations?
Not sure if Carrefore price regionally (don't think so). Currently on the red wine shelf is a very excellent La Mancha 2005 Cosecha Crianza at just €1.69 a go. Dominio De La Fuente. Bolder and better than it's branded Estola counter part and half the price.
Very nice and very strong
Any more nominations?
Mar 26th 2009, 9:25 pm
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Re: Current Wine Bargains!
Oh dear Lord! 
And I saw a Vintage Aston Martin the other day on sale for just €1000. Nothing AT ALL fishy about that.
Why do Brits not get the fact that good wine costs????? My Old Man does the same. He is chuffed to bits if he finds a wine cheap - and brags about the fact. He thinks that currently Lidl and Aldi are the best wine merchants in the world - simply because he never has to pay more than €1.50. When he comes to Spain, the locals round here can never understand his wine habit. No matter how much we all try to introduce him to decent wine (and not expensive either) he can't get it!!!
You carry on LP thinking that your Crianza is great for that price - I assure you, a Crianza at that price is probably worth exactly every cent you paid for it.
And I saw a Vintage Aston Martin the other day on sale for just €1000. Nothing AT ALL fishy about that.
Why do Brits not get the fact that good wine costs????? My Old Man does the same. He is chuffed to bits if he finds a wine cheap - and brags about the fact. He thinks that currently Lidl and Aldi are the best wine merchants in the world - simply because he never has to pay more than €1.50. When he comes to Spain, the locals round here can never understand his wine habit. No matter how much we all try to introduce him to decent wine (and not expensive either) he can't get it!!!
You carry on LP thinking that your Crianza is great for that price - I assure you, a Crianza at that price is probably worth exactly every cent you paid for it.
Mar 26th 2009, 9:35 pm
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Re: Current Wine Bargains!
Oh dear Lord!
And I saw a Vintage Aston Martin the other day on sale for just €1000. Nothing AT ALL fishy about that.
Why do Brits not get the fact that good wine costs????? My Old Man does the same. He is chuffed to bits if he finds a wine cheap - and brags about the fact. He thinks that currently Lidl and Aldi are the best wine merchants in the world - simply because he never has to pay more than €1.50. When he comes to Spain, the locals round here can never understand his wine habit. No matter how much we all try to introduce him to decent wine (and not expensive either) he can't get it!!!
You carry on LP thinking that your Crianza is great for that price - I assure you, a Crianza at that price is probably worth exactly every cent you paid for it.
And I saw a Vintage Aston Martin the other day on sale for just €1000. Nothing AT ALL fishy about that.
Why do Brits not get the fact that good wine costs????? My Old Man does the same. He is chuffed to bits if he finds a wine cheap - and brags about the fact. He thinks that currently Lidl and Aldi are the best wine merchants in the world - simply because he never has to pay more than €1.50. When he comes to Spain, the locals round here can never understand his wine habit. No matter how much we all try to introduce him to decent wine (and not expensive either) he can't get it!!!
You carry on LP thinking that your Crianza is great for that price - I assure you, a Crianza at that price is probably worth exactly every cent you paid for it.
I remember Oz Clarke saying on the box one evening that a good wine is "if you like it, don't matter what it costs. If Lambrusco rocks your socks then it's a good wine," I personally quite like Lambrusco and I also like Faustino de Autor Reserva.
Thanks for the tip TLP I'll have a little shifty along the wine rack when I'm next out shopping.
Mar 26th 2009, 9:39 pm
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Re: Current Wine Bargains!
:curse:bloody wine snobbery,does my head in!!!!...my local sells me a bucket of red for 60 cents,and it's the bizz!!!!!....ffs!!! I buy cartons of 20 litres for 18 euros,and it's FAB!!!!!....give it to a wine freak,they would think it cost a fortune 
Mar 26th 2009, 9:48 pm
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Re: Current Wine Bargains!
...that's 'cos you dont know when to stop ....I hear ya! 
Mar 26th 2009, 10:05 pm
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Re: Current Wine Bargains!
Well I am with Forteleza here, all these cheap wines are full of additives.
having said that I have only ever seen one organic wine here in Spain.
even the bricks in Aldi ? (55 cents a litre 
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Mar 26th 2009, 10:25 pm
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Re: Current Wine Bargains!
I'd give you karma for that post Cleri but I have to spread it around a bit first 
Mar 26th 2009, 10:36 pm
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Re: Current Wine Bargains!
You are in love with the price not the wine. If money was not an issue for you and you could drink gallons of the most expensive wine (without necessarily knowing the price and going on taste alone) you would.
Christ, I can go to Lidl and get a 10 cent can of beer and convince myself it is wonderful because it is so cheap. The reality is it is substandard - end of.
To do the same with wine is almos sacrilige.
Mar 26th 2009, 10:39 pm
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Re: Current Wine Bargains!
Go on about snobbery all you like the bottom line is this.
You are in love with the price not the wine. If money was not an issue for you and you could drink gallons of the most expensive wine (without necessarily knowing the price and going on taste alone) you would.
Christ, I can go to Lidl and get a 10 cent can of beer and convince myself it is wonderful because it is so cheap. The reality is it is substandard - end of.
To do the same with wine is almos sacrilige.
You are in love with the price not the wine. If money was not an issue for you and you could drink gallons of the most expensive wine (without necessarily knowing the price and going on taste alone) you would.
Christ, I can go to Lidl and get a 10 cent can of beer and convince myself it is wonderful because it is so cheap. The reality is it is substandard - end of.
To do the same with wine is almos sacrilige.
I have drunk wine in Italy at 100 quid a bottle ( in my former life)....it really wasn't much better!
Mar 26th 2009, 10:43 pm
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Re: Current Wine Bargains!
Using Portuguese wine as a yardstick doesn't exactly fill me with confidence!!!!
Plus Valdepeñas wines - normally used as a cheap table wine for menu del día because of its poor quality - sell for loads in the UK. I always laugh when I hear Brits tell me of this great Valdepeñas wine, when I know it is just awful - cheap but awful!
Plus Valdepeñas wines - normally used as a cheap table wine for menu del día because of its poor quality - sell for loads in the UK. I always laugh when I hear Brits tell me of this great Valdepeñas wine, when I know it is just awful - cheap but awful!