there are various spanish sites who will deliver to elsewhere in europe (complicated legal situation re duty exemption in the uk), where you will pay not more than about £11 for tondonia crianza at the right time of year
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Thursday, 28 August 2014 14:40 (nine years ago) link
though i would certainly not recommend their white, and possibly even their red wines to someone who doesn't drink a lot of wine, partial oxidation via extremely long aging in cask is not what most people would consider obviously desireable
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Thursday, 28 August 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
Equivalent thread for 330ml bottle of beer would be interesting
― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, August 27, 2014 7:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Or a thread about how long you'd be willing to wait in line for a special release.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
£145
― conrad, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
It's a happy Sunday and winemaker Adrian Carsini is at his vineyard with four fellow wine connoisseurs. Leaving the room under the guise of getting a new bottle of wine that is breathing in his office, he listens in on the intercom as his tasters discuss and agree making Adrian the wine industry's Man of the Year.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
I chose £10, but really I would spend up to $20.
I've compared a $40 bottle of wine with one I paid a few hundred dollars on. The expensive one tasted awful and the expensive ones that do taste okay, I can't even tell the difference between it and a $20 dollar bottle.
So, yeah, £10
― ∞, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
For our families at our wedding I bought 2x3L of Perrier Jouet for $250 each, prorated for 750ml = $62.50/ ~47€
I may have spent more than that on a single bottle of wine at retail a couple times, but I can't remember specifics.
The most expensive wine I've ever tasted was a 1961 Chateau Pape Clement grand cru classe bordeaux which a friend shared with us over dinner a couple years ago, retail on that bottle is $500+, I would imagine you'd see it on a fancy wine list for several thousand dollars.
Spirits: A friend of mine owns a restaurant and got a promotional bottle of Nolet's Reserve Gin and popped it open one night when he was bored and had the bartender pour us two chilled shots. I had no idea what it was but I remarked that it tasted "pretty good!" My friend then told me the bottle retails for $750 and the sales rep recommended selling shots for $150/per! It was good but either I'm not a gin person or that's a tremendous waste of money (most likely both).
As others have stated, don't get me started on beer.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 28 August 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 29 August 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
i don't usually go above $20 but i have dabbled in the $30-40 range at wine bars when splitting with others. tbh i tend to go for cheap bottles that i can finish in an evening, and save my dough for quality liquor.
― Rihannamator (get bent), Friday, 29 August 2014 02:35 (nine years ago) link
Bronze age Canaanite wine cellar discovered in Israel last year.http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0106406http://images.sciencedaily.com/2014/08/140827141559-large.jpg
― dead r souls (xelab), Friday, 29 August 2014 06:03 (nine years ago) link
High arsenic levels in cheap wineList of wines cited in lawsuit as having high arsenic levels
― in an awkward manor (doo dah), Saturday, 21 March 2015 13:12 (nine years ago) link
recently broke £30 for a dinner party gift, regretted it at the time, but last night the host's son visited me & informed me that his mum had gone on at length after I left about how my wine had stolen the show, now feel much better about buying that wine
― to pump a bit of lye (imago), Saturday, 21 March 2015 13:29 (nine years ago) link
keep the meme dead: pippa's arsenic
― pom /via/ chi (nakhchivan), Saturday, 21 March 2015 13:46 (nine years ago) link
what did u buy xp
shit, it's gone. began with a p, french, about ten letters
― to pump a bit of lye (imago), Saturday, 21 March 2015 13:48 (nine years ago) link
lol
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 21 March 2015 13:48 (nine years ago) link
hopefully a pomerol, or a pommard
it was great
I will record my wines more assiduously henceforth
Pomerol rings a bell! Yeah I think it was that
― to pump a bit of lye (imago), Saturday, 21 March 2015 13:49 (nine years ago) link
i'll pay more for a bottle of whiskey, since it's more stable and can hang out in my liquor cabinet for a long time without ever really going bad, and one drink of whiskey takes less from the bottle than a glass of wine. though i max out at around $45 w/ whiskey. you can get a lot of good whiskies in the $25-$40 range.
― marcos, Wednesday, August 27, 2014 11:55 AM
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 21 March 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link
dropped 40 euro on a barolo or a valpolicella or s/t lately again obv I just asked at the counter for a good italian red it was for someone else
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Saturday, 21 March 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
A bottle of £4.37 wine has been named the best in the world
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Friday, 10 June 2016 14:12 (seven years ago) link
About 10 years ago or more their used to be a lovely Rioja you could get for £3.29 at Asda that put many £10+ bottles to shame. Even Malcom Gluck raved about it in the Graun iirc.
― calzino, Friday, 10 June 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
Best in show in the best single-varietal red under £15.
― I have also been to Maine and, briefly, Nebraska (doo dah), Monday, 13 June 2016 01:51 (seven years ago) link
I feel like the $15-18 range is the sweet spot where it's pretty unlikley I'll get something *bad* if I'm buying from a decent store and have some idea what kind of thing I want. I have go-to wines in the $10-12 range but it gets riskier there.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 13 June 2016 02:09 (seven years ago) link
i don't drink but it's heartening to know that good wines under 15 are plentiful
― riverine (map), Monday, 13 June 2016 02:44 (seven years ago) link
Gik blue wine comes to the UK from Spain
The producers suggest pairing the wine with sushi, nachos with guacamole or pasta carbonara with music from James Blake or Alt J in the background
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca9Ii27W4AAcbmt.jpg
Drinking wine with my boy Rob before Alt-J
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:59 (seven years ago) link
I can't remember which £4.37 La Moneda Reserva Malbec won the big wine award but I got a few bottles of their pinot noir and a few of their merlot in this week. So far the merlot is decent - good enough for any low level bon vivant!
― calzino, Monday, 4 July 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
The wankers have upped the La Moneda Reserva Malbecit range to £5.75 a bottle now, hope they fucking die.
― calzino, Sunday, 31 July 2016 16:09 (seven years ago) link