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

JASR said:
Calling @gordondaviesmoustache to the thread
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If I’m splashing out I’ll have: Bordeaux, Napa Valley or top-end Malbec, but the former is still the King.

Most I’ve spent on a bottle of wine is about £200, and I would say the law of diminishing returns applies after that point. That was an exception though (think it was my birthday) and £100 is normally my limit.

I’m certainly no expert, but usually pick quite well, nearly always choosing one of the above in the £40 to £60 range. Think it’s mainly down to luck tbh.

The headline, however, is totally misleading and underlines why the press in this country is such a fucking joke. The reviewer said this:

Sam said she tried a bottle and found it to be very drinkable. She said: "While I've never tried £3,000 wine (or any that are anywhere near as expensive) Aldi's version is a fantastic bottle of red
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So how the fuck can she know it’s “just as good” which is almost certainly isn’t. I expect it’s probably very nice though. You can get some amazing wines for fuck all in Aldi and Lidl.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
If I’m splashing out I’ll have: Bordeaux, Napa Valley or top-end Malbec, but the former is still the King.

Most I’ve spent on a bottle of wine is about £200, and I would say the law of diminishing returns applies after that point. That was an exception though (think it was my birthday) and £100 is normally my limit.

I’m certainly no expert, but usually pick quite well, nearly always choosing one of the above in the £40 to £60 range. Think it’s mainly down to luck tbh.

The headline, however, is totally misleading and underlines why the press in this country is such a fucking joke. The reviewer said this:


So how the fuck can she know it’s “just as good” which is almost certainly isn’t. I expect it’s probably very nice though. You can get some amazing wines for fuck all in Aldi and Lidl.
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I’m fond of Pauillac but that can be expensive these days. Almost anything from the St. Emilion area is not cheap. I have two bottles of Pauillac in store but they are in danger.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
If I’m splashing out I’ll have: Bordeaux, Napa Valley or top-end Malbec, but the former is still the King.

Most I’ve spent on a bottle of wine is about £200, and I would say the law of diminishing returns applies after that point. That was an exception though (think it was my birthday) and £100 is normally my limit.

I’m certainly no expert, but usually pick quite well, nearly always choosing one of the above in the £40 to £60 range. Think it’s mainly down to luck tbh.

The headline, however, is totally misleading and underlines why the press in this country is such a fucking joke. The reviewer said this:


So how the fuck can she know it’s “just as good” which is almost certainly isn’t. I expect it’s probably very nice though. You can get some amazing wines for fuck all in Aldi and Lidl.
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Yes I thought that. How can she say it's as good when she hasn't tasted the expensive bottle? I've bought the odd more expensive bottle of red when it's been on offer at Waitrose but often found a £6 bottle tastes better. When I worked on the ships I could get 6 bottles of Barefoot merlot for £16 with my staff discount. I miss those days!
 
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.
 
deano ou812 said:
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 ..
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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!
 
One Fan Clapping said:
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!
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There’s a huge amount of Emperor’s new clothes and bullshit when it comes to really expensive wine.
 
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!
 
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