Yup. Been around a while. Pretty good for the price.
Yup. Been around a while. Pretty good for the price.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
There's a Reserva Porta 6 for like a quid more and it's very good too
If you like that I think you will like this Negroamaro from Coop as well. Used to be cheaper but I’d still say good value.
https://www.coop.co.uk/products/vanita-negroamaro
Rush forth unto Tesco and buy some of this:
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-G...ucts/268451032
Piccini Memoro red. It's £7.50 with a clubcard and currently 25% off when you buy six. I always have a few bottles kicking around and friends are buying it too now.
"A man of little significance"
The old Yellow Tail Shiraz is a consistently potable budget drop in the UK and USA.
Question from a very infrequent wine/alcohol drinker: if I bought 6 of these, how long would they be "good" for? I have maybe 2 bottles of wine in an average year.
Yep, been a regular bottle in our house as well. Very easy drinking.
I like this one as well:
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This is one of my favourites for under a tenner if you buy six!
https://www.waitrosecellar.com/all-w...passime-607989
Or this but a little more expensive; https://www.laithwaites.co.uk/product/0022622
Last edited by Snoodles; 25th March 2024 at 21:34.
Enjoyed a bottle only the weekend before last (and several before that). Has anyone tried this...link?
You’re welcome!
Another to try if you like the full bodied wines.
https://www.justincases.co.uk/baglio...BoC5bMQAvD_BwE
Toro Loco from Aldi has been our cheapie red wine of choice for several years now.
Has had a huge price hike in percentage terms like everything else post Covid, but still under a fiver per bottle :-)
Last edited by 459GMB; 26th March 2024 at 14:34.
This is very nice. Goes down perhaps a bit too easily. £9.75 at Tesco (maybe less with Clubcard).
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Think I got carried away a little.
Although, Villa Maria NZ Sav Blanc is my absolute favourite and for me the best of the NZ Sav Blancs, and I have tried many.
Perfect for the long warm summer nights, and at less than £6.40 per bottle with all the discounts applied, an absolute steal.
Will see us through until the clocks go back.
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Porta 6 at 5.20 per bottle. Where can you any half decent wine for a fiver these days? This is a very good bargain for absolutely no money.
There is pretty much a million bottles of wine out there that will be nicer for more money.
But for the price, a great honest bottle that is better than many, but not all, more expensive bottles.
Always difficult to compete with wine producing countries who apply very little tax, when a UK bottle has a minimum duty and Vat of circa £3.50, and then has to be shipped to destination.
I am amazed, if you pick carefully, just what quality value you can get in the U.K. for reasonable cost.
Sadly Mum´s Alz-dementia has put an end to that, last visit here was ´22, they came with my Sis, Ma struggled somewhat ...the old boy is old school, won´t be a burden, wouldn´t come again ´´not with things the way they are´´. Ma´s just been sent home from hospital, broke her hip about 3 weeks back...the ´´care package´´ sounds somewhat sketchy, but she´ll be happier at home and i guess they needed the bed...it´s just whether the old man can cope with her more reduced state...the Carers in his house will take some readjustment, he´s like me or vice versa, territorial.
Sorry thread deviation. House wine here is Thader a blend of monastrell, tempranillo and Cab Sauv from a bodega up the road in Jumilla, we´ve done a tasting or 2 there... though it´s sold in Mercadona, 3.80 euro...I dunno how they do it,
Last edited by Passenger; 30th March 2024 at 00:01.
Only have the occasional drop but find this is a firm favourite here.