How much do you spend on a bottle?

Years ago I would spend from £10-15 sometimes up to £25 per bottle, these days it's more like a fiver and all thanks to supermarkets like Aldi.

Are you saying they've decent wines for a 5ver at Aldi's? if so spill the secrets.

I spend $10 to $15 on a bottle just to have at the end of the day. usually it's just over 10 though and it's been reduced to that price rather than it's full price.
10... so maybe $12.99

purchased at the supermarket so usually a good price.

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Usually less than $15 have been known to throw down large and drop $20 but that's rare.

Relaxing at home, a bottle of vino tinto is €0.90 cents - palatable with a dash of gaseosa or made into a sangria. With a good steak meal, €5 buys a good Rioja.

Dave

Trader Joe has the Charle Shaw line of Merlot, Chardonnay, Cabernat, Shiraz for $2.99 a bottle for years. We stock it by the case since about 7, 8 years ago.

For home consumption, not more than $15, but more often, more like $5.50, up to $8.

Dining out, in a moment of insanity, we once spent $65. It wasn't at all worth it.

You are overpaying. There's a reason it's called "Two Buck Chuck." That's what it costs here. The extra buck is tacked on for shipping to the provinces.

The problem with Chuck is that it is completely inconsistent. because it's made with whatever cheap grapes Bronco Winery can find. One bottle might be pretty good; another OK; a third, undrinkable. A couple have actually come out on top of wine competitions, although critics noted that other cases of the same vintage were not so good.

Since I live within a two hour drive of hundreds of wineries, I can get good stuff at the supermarket at good prices. Our everyday drinking wine seems to always be on sale. "Regularly $12," but I buy it at US$8-9, depending on the "sale." Since that particular winery is right in our backyard, local supermarkets seem to get good deals on it. For the heck of it, I checked wine.com & said I wanted the wine shipped to NY. They wanted $13-15, plus shipping.

I rarely pay over $15 for better stuff. I almost never pay over $30, except for a major special occasion.

Are you saying they've decent wines for a 5ver at Aldi's? if so spill the secrets.

I agree with Donkeystone, Lincoln. It's only fairly recently that I have tried Aldi's wine. (Indeed, the first time I entered an Aldi store was a few years ago to buy a dual-powered cool box.) Try Aldi's Mâcon-Villages @ GBP 4.99 and let us know what you think, Lincoln.