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

A friend of mine is master of wine of 20 years. You'd expect it all to be really pretentious but its genuinely interesting, can guarantee at least 5 bottles of wine get brought out when you go round to his too, always a good time.
For his daughters 18th he brought out a Bordeaux he bought back in 2009 for about £900, honestly the best thing I have ever tasted
 
CTID1988 said:
A friend of mine is master of wine of 20 years. You'd expect it all to be really pretentious but its genuinely interesting, can guarantee at least 5 bottles of wine get brought out when you go round to his too, always a good time.
For his daughters 18th he brought out a Bordeaux he bought back in 2009 for about £900, honestly the best thing I have ever tasted
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Posh ****
 
CTID1988 said:
A friend of mine is master of wine of 20 years. You'd expect it all to be really pretentious but its genuinely interesting, can guarantee at least 5 bottles of wine get brought out when you go round to his too, always a good time.
For his daughters 18th he brought out a Bordeaux he bought back in 2009 for about £900, honestly the best thing I have ever tasted
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Poor girl, it’s all downhill from there!
 
There’s a bottle of Rioja that Aldi do around the £4.90 mark. It’s a lovely drop.

I bet that £61m lotto winning couple will be buying £3k bottles just for a laugh now.
 
I've some friends who are into investing in high end wine. I've tried a few reds that would cost thousands per bottle.

There is a certain taste and look to well aged red. It has a rusty colour with a deep but smooth taste.

But is it worth it. 100% no.
 
Was in the hipster wine shop in Chorlton a few weeks back, (Barlow Moor Rd opp Beech Rd), was reluctant to pay the prices and tbh got lost in the choice, so asked what the cheapest they had was. Got two bottles at £8 each, one Portuguese, one Italian (the "house") and they were both notably superior to my usual Lidl/Aldi or supermarket buys. Got a free taste of something during my visit too. Sorry but can't recall the names but would definitely recommend for a few extra quid if you can bear the faintly over enthusiastic nature of the staff/experience.
 
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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Some excellent value wines in Aldi/Lidl. There’s a full bodied Shiraz (South African I think ) for about £7 which is lovely. I used travel through Düsseldorf a lot 10-15 years ago and would often pick 2 or 3 bottles of Penfolds Bin 389 at the airport for around £25 each, for Christmas or Birthdays. Looked just before last Christmas…over £300 a bottle now. Crazy.
 
As a kid, I always imagine red wine was like an alcoholic ‘Vimpto’ ,and white like some sort of fruity lemonade, imagine my surprise when I eventually tried it, thought it was horrible.
Never really got all the ‘fruity bouquet with a hint of rosemary’ thing, I probably just don’t have the palate for it, so wouldn’t ever be able to tell the difference between an expensive one or a cheap one, but over Christmas, a friend bought the Missus a bottle of ‘Pinot Noir’, was a bit thirsty so took a swig (out of the bottle, keepin it real ;-)), and you know what, it was bloody lovely.

Still can’t even sniff white or rose though, 13 bottles of ‘Diamond White’ on my 25th birthday put paid to me ever going near it.
 
Rory Bluelow said:
Some excellent value wines in Aldi/Lidl. There’s a full bodied Shiraz (South African I think ) for about £7 which is lovely. I used travel through Düsseldorf a lot 10-15 years ago and would often pick 2 or 3 bottles of Penfolds Bin 389 at the airport for around £25 each, for Christmas or Birthdays. Looked just before last Christmas…over £300 a bottle now. Crazy.
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SHIT! I used to buy a bottle of Penfolds form the supermarkets from time to time (see user name :-) ), but I'd have to think twice about £25, but £300 - no way.
 
I'm off to the Virgin wines tasting at GMEX in a couple of weeks in my never ending quest to find a red wine I like
I am a peasant when it comes to wine, but I enjoy the day. It'll be the fourth time I've visited
Cost around £20 for a ticket and you drink as much as you want for five hours

Last year they had a craft beer and a rum table which was interesting and I spent the last half an hour of the session tasting the beers

When we were on the way home, my daughter asked what I had discovered and I replied that I like beer
 
Penfold the Duke said:
SHIT! I used to buy a bottle of Penfolds form the supermarkets from time to time (see user name :-) ), but I'd have to think twice about £25, but £300 - no way.
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Penfolds is a great winemaker and you can still get decent bottles at Tesco for £10-£20. They used to call Bin 389 “the Poor Man’s Grange” but I don’t think a poor man could get near it now !
 
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