£5.25 Aldi wine as good as £3,000 bottle.

[dickie davies]

Wifey is a proper wine buff and the stuff she drinks is normally in the £8-£12 range
There have been recommendations on here in the past, the last one being this, of which she said "it's drinkable, but I'm not buying it again"

https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-specially-selected-valpolicella-ripasso-75cl/4088600370408

 

[Metal Biker]

Most £6-8 wines taste as you'd expect them to; flavourful, refreshing and a great accompaniment to a meal.

£10-15 wines are only slightly better quality, anything above that price range there is no discernable difference. It's a con that only the snobbiest of wine snobs would disagree with, that if you want to know what a "really good wine" tastes like, you can get one in the £9 price range and that anything above that price really isn't worth it.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Just to clarify, I was talking about prices in restaurants, not supermarkets!

Tend to go £15 to £25 there.

 

[TonyM]

What about the wines in the match threads?

 

[deano ou812]

Hmmm the beckhams had a £3000 bottle of wine,you could probably switch it with cheap cooking wine and they’d not tell the difference ..

 

[One Fan Clapping]

Hmmm the beckhams had a £3000 bottle of wine,you could probably switch it with cheap cooking wine and they’d not tell the difference ..

On League of Their Own the host said to Micah Richards about him spending, I think, £2k on Champagne.

They asked if he would be able to taste the difference between a £2k bottle and an Aldi one.

He tasted them both and said one was definitely the £2k one.

They were both from Aldi!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

On League of Their Own the host said to Micah Richards about him spending, I think, £2k on Champagne.

They asked if he would be able to taste the difference between a £2k bottle and an Aldi one.

He tasted them both and said one was definitely the £2k one.

They were both from Aldi!

There’s a huge amount of Emperor’s new clothes and bullshit when it comes to really expensive wine.

 

[splinter]

Thank the lord for aldi my Friday big shop is the highlight of my week..

 

[Corky]

Has anybody tried either? I'm sure the Aldi one can't taste that good but who am I to argue with a wine master?

Aldi's £5.29 bottle of red wine is 'just as good' as one that costs £3,000

The Beckhams enjoyed a bottle of Chateau Mouton Rothschild on Christmas Day, and it costs up to £3,000 a bottle.

www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk

The "wine master" hasn't tried both. Complete bullshit story and just a promotion for Aldi.

 

[hammocity]

I used to buy my Dad’s wine from Morrison’s, he’d have the 2 for a tenner most of the time but when there were offers on better bottles I’d get those. However, sometimes it was a waste of time as his third glass from the bottle was topped up with Aldi’s Gin.

Don’t think even an £8 bottle of wine would have been much of an upgrade. Doctor told him he was drinking too much but he lived until 89, described his night time drinking as his only remaining pleasure!