Wine!
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I'll be looking out for them Merve. I tend to favour red. When I go for white, it's often a sparkling. There's a nice Aldi Prosecco - the one I like is £9.99 a bottle (Collezione Oro).... and there's a cheaper Co-op one with a bluish label about £8. I just wished I could remember what it's called... 😀
David
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Not seen any £9 champagne, perhaps it was a special.😀
We particularly like this Rhone red from the Coop. Not particularly cheap at £7.75 but compares with wines much more expensive. It's a combination of Grenache and Syrah, very smooth, rich and full bodied. Excellent with a nice rare fillet steak.😋 From time to time, they nock £1 / £2 off the price of selected wines, so will keep an eye out. 😳
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Enjoyed a really nice red last night, a 2016 San Lucas Malbec from Argentina, a really full bodied lovely wine. Also like yourself Merve have enjoyed the Waxed Bat and Black Stump many times. Look out for the 25% off six bottles at Sainsburys.
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Cote du Rhone is one of our favourite wines and we have drunk our fair share over the years. However I would not have classed any of them as full bodied?Perhaps I don't understand the term? I appreciate that there are Cote du Rhone and Cote du Rhone, sometimes made with different grapes but I generally find most Rhone wines quite light. Argentinian Malbac would fit my description of a full bodied wine which I really like but Margaret thinks is too heavy! I will see if they have the wine mentioned by Steve in our local Co-Op.
David
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I used to be a snobby about Aldi wines, but having tried a few bottles of late, my view has changed. ‘Animus’ from Portugal is very good and at about £5 excellent value. A good quaffing red.
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Having purchased a bottle of this wine we drank the bottle of this wine this evening with our meal. It was OK but the Cote du Rhone I regularly buy from Waitrose is better and cheaper. It was a bit more full bodied than usual wines from this region. At £7.75 I feel it is a touch expensive.
David
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Steve
I need to look in my cupboard tomorrow to see if I still have a bottle. I have looked on the website but can't see the usual one. I quite like the Cote du Rhone Village but that is a bit more expensive.
David
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Steve
I have now had a chance to check out my wine cupboard!!! I tend to buy bottles of wine two at a time just in case we have guests and one bottle is not enough! Currently I have this Cote du Rhone which is £5.99 a bottle. Must have liked it as we only have one bottle left! I also have a couple of Cote du Rhone Village which is a rather nice wine although I an not sure I paid the current price of £9.99 a bottle? This is another favorite currently on offer at £6.99. As you know Waitrose do all sorts of offers, sometimes a blanket 25% off and at other times 25% off selected wines. For when we don't have guests we tend to buy boxes of wine as we don't always want to drink as much as a full bottle. This Chilean Red Merlot is good value and this white Sauvignon Blanc whilst French as all the characteristics of a New Zealand wine.
David
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Thanks David. We have not as far as I can remember tried either the CdR or the Les Dauphins CdRV. I will pick up a bottle of the CdR next time we visit but perhaps wait until the other comes on offer. Like you have tried the ARC when on offer (25% off) and I thought it a nice wine and good value. However, I would not buy it at full price. We often buy / enjoy this CdRV when on offer, but again don't reckon it is worth the full price.
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As far as red in boxes, I was going to post a link to this Australian Shiraz we have been buying from Tesco for the last year. A very reasonable slurping wine at only £12.35 a box.
Unfortunately it is not on the web site. Hope they have not discontinued it.☹️Only bought one, in store, a week ago. Perhaps I should have stocked up.😀
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Steve, if you are in Tesco in the next few days they have an offer of Cote du Rhone Village at £6 a bottle. I did buy a couple of bottles for the rack so can't yet confirm how good or otherwise it is but it is certainly a good price. They seem to have a few other interesting offers including a Malbac and South African Chenin Blanc.
David
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I've just had to use local Tesco Express (very limited range) to buy an "emergency" (don't ask) bottle of red and as my preferred Yellowtail wasn't on offer , I decided to buy a cheapie: W.O Western Cape South African Pinotage "selected by Tesco" for £4.45- I thought it would be rough but drinkable but turned out to be lovely and I've drank most of the bottle!! Going back for more.....
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Steve, if you are in Tesco in the next few days they have an offer of Cote du Rhone Village at £6 a bottle. I did buy a couple of bottles for the rack so can't yet confirm how good or otherwise it is but it is certainly a good price.
It is certainly popular David. There was a big void where it should be on the shelf.☹️
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Sainsburys and Tesco regularly have this on special offer for £5.75-£6 and the other varieties too. I agree it definitely has a strong blueberry note!
My favourite everyday, (not literally) tipple is Lindemans Tollana Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon 2018, which is nearly always £4.50 at Asda: it's deceptively fruity and easy to drink despite being 13.5%!
I take a few bottles with me every caravan trip😊
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I has a glass of wine at a meeting the other night - a glass of French Rex Mundi. It was a Shiraz/ Grenache blend, and very nice! I usually find Shiraz a little bitter for me, but blended with the Grenache it was very pleasant. I think you can only generally get it through Laithwaites, and it's £9.99 a bottle, but worth it, IMHO.
Anyone else tried this?
David
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Well, on the subject of French Wine, has anyone beside ourselves done a prebrexit shopping trip? We spent £178 pounds on ferry to Roscoff and stayed with a friend in Brittany. We mostly buy bag in a box wine, around 8 to 13€ for 3 litres. For example JPChenin which is £18 in Sainsbury’s and €9.95 in French hyper markets. Plus quite a few bottles, especially sparkling.
We brought back the equivalent to 150 bottles, reckon we are saving at least £2.50 a bottle therefore £375, so £200 better off. Plus a lovely trip to France.
Just in case we go back to the duty free limit of 4 litres per person....We shop at Super U, Leclerc and Géant. Always lovely wine, never had a bad box or bottle. Have been doing this for 30 years. And our livers are still functioning.
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A day trip to Calais is perfectly doable from MK, although it's a long day! However we gave up doing so many years ago as things gradually became more expensive in France and British supermarkets became more competitive. When we were on holiday we did just as you did, buy boxes of wine. Unfortunately we found we ended up disposing of a percentage of them because they didn't keep very well. I am sure if and when we return to France we will be tempted to bring a few back but apart from Rhone red wines and Cotes de Gascogne white wine our tastes are now more towards new world wines which are not so easy to find in France. I still remember the cheap litre bottles of wine we used to buy in France which you paid a deposit on, they had a star embossed in the glass and the boys used to like taking them back for a bit of extra pocket money!
David
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Likewise David My taste has changed towards New World wines too, and they are readily available in the UK. Whenever we go to France, we always bring some wine back, but I suspect it's now turned into more of a tradition than anything else. We certainly don't bring as much back as we used to. After saying that, I was quite impressed with the French Rex Mundi I had last week.
David
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Funnily enough on the subject of Booze Cruises there was a piece on the One Show tonight about a sudden upsurge of Brits crossing the Channel because of the fear that restrictions might well be put back in place if leaving the EU we do so without a deal. When I saw the show it reminded me of the fact that New World wines are available at the big wine warehouses which I had forgotten about.
David
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D'you know - all the years we've been across, we've never used the booze warehouses in Calais. Firstly, because we've always had the caraven in tow and have never bothered with parking up. Secondly, when we reach Calais, we are generally just thinking about catching the train or ferry and making our way home. I really must stop at them one day.
David
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David
If you stay at Bien Assise or Gandspette as your last night in France you would probably have time to get to one of the warehouses? Alternatively have a look on Google Earth as it should give you an impression of the parking area and whether you would get the caravan in.
David
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