fluffy666 Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 OK, so we are preparing to visit some friends and relatives over Easter, and in preparation I have to get some booze in.. I apply the standard rules any normal connoisseur would for selecting the wine - namely two lots of 3-for-a-tenner, to get the 6-bottle discount.. except (and this is the shock horror bit) there is no 3-for-a-tenner in Sainsburys. Everything seems to be £4.50 or more for a bottle now. The horror. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unsafe As Houses Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 OK, so we are preparing to visit some friends and relatives over Easter, and in preparation I have to get some booze in.. I apply the standard rules any normal connoisseur would for selecting the wine - namely two lots of 3-for-a-tenner, to get the 6-bottle discount.. except (and this is the shock horror bit) there is no 3-for-a-tenner in Sainsburys. Everything seems to be £4.50 or more for a bottle now. The horror. Buy a crate of lager instead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lagarde's Drift Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 Go to Majestic, do not pass "Supermarket folly". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lepista Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 OK, so we are preparing to visit some friends and relatives over Easter, and in preparation I have to get some booze in.. I apply the standard rules any normal connoisseur would for selecting the wine - namely two lots of 3-for-a-tenner, to get the 6-bottle discount.. except (and this is the shock horror bit) there is no 3-for-a-tenner in Sainsburys. Everything seems to be £4.50 or more for a bottle now. The horror. Sainsburys own red plonk is reasonable, and less than £4 a bottle. even co=op are doing their version at a respectable £3.79 - quite palatable too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Hun Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 OK, so we are preparing to visit some friends and relatives over Easter, and in preparation I have to get some booze in.. I apply the standard rules any normal connoisseur would for selecting the wine - namely two lots of 3-for-a-tenner, to get the 6-bottle discount.. except (and this is the shock horror bit) there is no 3-for-a-tenner in Sainsburys. Everything seems to be £4.50 or more for a bottle now. The horror. Happened quite some time ago in Asda, its the exchange rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agentimmo Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 6 bottles for £20. That's just over £3 a bottle. Do you hate your "friends" that much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DungBeetle Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 6 bottles for £20. That's just over £3 a bottle. Do you hate your "friends" that much? If you're going to spend that little on wine, stopping whining! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spongeh Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 Buy the 1.5ltr Sainsburys own brand stuff, its quite quaff-able. Only downside is its in a plastic bottle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken_ichikawa Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 Home brew some moonshine instead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopGun Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 6 bottles for £20. That's just over £3 a bottle. Do you hate your "friends" that much? Sainsburys always seem to have a few half price £10 bottles, so four nice ones for £20 is easy. 6 would be er stretching it a bit I admit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffy666 Posted April 5, 2011 Author Share Posted April 5, 2011 Home brew some moonshine instead I do my own home brew beer. But people seem a little scared of it, for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffy666 Posted April 5, 2011 Author Share Posted April 5, 2011 6 bottles for £20. That's just over £3 a bottle. Do you hate your "friends in-laws" that much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopGun Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 I do my own home brew beer. But people seem a little scared of it, for some reason. sounds promising.... maybe it's the conical flasks that puts them off?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffy666 Posted April 5, 2011 Author Share Posted April 5, 2011 sounds promising.... maybe it's the conical flasks that puts them off?! Actually it was the raspberry beer that you had to pour through a sieve before drinking. Quite palatable, as long as you didn't look at what you were drinking. Homebrew wine does give me bad flashbacks though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken_ichikawa Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 I do my own home brew beer. But people seem a little scared of it, for some reason. Send me some and I'll test it for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Injin Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 I do my own home brew beer. But people seem a little scared of it, for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fflump Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 Sainsburys always seem to have a few half price £10 bottles, so four nice ones for £20 is easy. 6 would be er stretching it a bit I admit. A lot of these "£10" bottles are sold at full price about as much as DFS sell full price sofas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fadeaway Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 Half price pots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montesquieu Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 We are spoiled in this country. I lived in New Zealand 15 years ago and a decent bottle of the local plonk was minimum NDZ$30 (about a tenner at the time, when £3 a bottle was normal in the UK). Since then wine has hardly gone up here. Until lately. It's good in a way that the £3 barrier has been breached because most of the stuff sold (lately at least) at that price has been total sh**t. I don't mind paying £7-10 for a half-decent bottle but it does make experimentation expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richc Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 6 bottles for £20. That's just over £3 a bottle. Do you hate your "friends" that much? The tax on a bottle of wine like that is about £2.30, so you're really paying about £1.00 for the wine itself. A bottle of imported French mineral water normally retails for a pound, so that's probably a good estimate of the costs of packaging and shipping. It's hard to imagine how any wine grower can produce anything that's at all drinkable for exactly £0.00 per bottle. Maybe they'd like a box of chocolates instead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copydude Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 It's rip-off Britain . . . plus the Chancellor. There is no reason why wine should be this price. You can get a litre box of perfectly OK plonk in Germany for E1,50. You can buy foreign wine in Russia for under 200 roubles a bottle . . . despite the tariffs, vast distances and distribution costs. And what's wrong with a box. Now even expensive wines in UK come with a screw-top. It's scandalous. The ferry to Calais can save you a fortune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swissy_fit Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 Join Laithwaites, they'll send you a mixed crate of excellent wine at a good price if you tell them what type you want. They usually have an introductory offer for new members so most or all of the first crate will be free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 The tax on a bottle of wine like that is about £2.30, so you're really paying about £1.00 for the wine itself. A bottle of imported French mineral water normally retails for a pound, so that's probably a good estimate of the costs of packaging and shipping. It's hard to imagine how any wine grower can produce anything that's at all drinkable for exactly £0.00 per bottle. Maybe they'd like a box of chocolates instead? Auchan do 12 bottles for 23 €......the boxes can be good value also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryrot Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 Auchan do 12 bottles for 23 €......the boxes can be good value also. Lidl throwing Chenin Blanc still £3.49. Second bottle always tastes better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richc Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 Join Laithwaites, they'll send you a mixed crate of excellent wine at a good price if you tell them what type you want. They usually have an introductory offer for new members so most or all of the first crate will be free. Laithwaites is a rip-off -- their wine is cr_p. They go to the southwest of France, or Spain, or Chile, buy wine for 50p a bottle and then sell it back in the UK for £6.00 a bottle. I ordered a case from them and there wasn't anything in there that I couldn't get the same quality for half the price from any of the supermarkets. They have a shop near to my house and I stopped by there afterwards to see their full range to see if they had better bargains. They didn't. They did have an industrial size call centre in the back with about 200 tele-sales staff cold calling to sell over-priced wine to people who know nothing about wine. That's where they make their money -- it has nothing to do with finding and selling good value wine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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