How much do you spend on a bottle?

Just wondering how much you would be prepared to spend on a bottle of vino?

Not talking about "If I won the lottery...."

Talking more about treating yourself to a decent bottle after a long week at work.

What are you prepared to pay?

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.

Edited by: sneaker_fish

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.

$50 (dining out). Half that at home.

And half that again if I'm in the mood for a several glasses.

I must shop at the same places as sneakerfish. $10-15 a bottle but I only ever buy when my favourite brands are on sale. The clean skins (at $7-8 a bottle) can be good or they can be 'orrible. I've paid about $100 in a restaurant once - but we had a gift voucher so I wasn't really paying. It was fabulous - my first grenache experience.

I sometimes buy the el cheapo bubbles for picnics or parties and have been known to splash out $20-25 for a special occasion.

Paying less for wine is more to do with my palette than my pocket, years ago I could tell the difference between excellent, good, mediocre and crap. Unfortunately my palette has gone the same way as my hearing, the noise that comes out of my Quad hi fi doesn't sound any different to my neighbours Sony surround system.

This weekend I read in the IHT that the French consider spending more than 8-10€ on a bottle of wine a waste, so I fit right in. I usually spend 4-5€ for a bottle, never more than 8 and that's only if I see something special during a wine special offer.

There is also a producer about 100 km south of here (Corbières) who makes a very good red that sells for 2€99 in my local supermarket.

After much searching once I moved here I found Lucky Duck Malbec. It's $3.45 a bottle. I get it at Walmart. I will occasionally splurge and spend about $15 for a bottle. I am saving a bottle I got from the wine distributor I used to work for. It cost me $20 but it's only available for a month or 2 and I'm sure I'll never get it again. It's Bogle Phantom. The last time I had it it was quite good. It better be good this time!

I recently drank a bottle of Luigi Bosca malbec that I bought in Argentina several years ago and I had been saving for a special occasion. It lived up to my expectations.

Like many others here - $10 - $15 USD for a very good everyday wine, as little as $5 if a wine I know I like happens to be on-sale. I once spent $30 for a bottle of Rapasso from Italy - it was worth it. And have spent around that for sparkling wine for a special occassion.

years ago I could tell the difference between excellent, good, mediocre and crap. Unfortunately my palette has gone the same way as my hearing

How/why?

I just got back from a trip to a store with a large wine department. They are promoting winners of the California State Fiar Wine Competition (one of the biggies for California wine). I bought 6 bottles of assorted everyday wines for $9 and $10 each.

Among others: This won a double gold. And this. Tony will no doubt enjoy the name and the description.

Verify you're 21. Never been ID'd by a website before!

Nutrax - Sea Glass (found on beaches) is one of my favourit things - finding a perfect piece is like a little piece of heaven and an instant happiness boost - so if I saw that bottle I'd HAVE to buy it regardless of the quality (although it looks rather nice on the website!) and within reason price!

Back to the question - we have two grades of wine in our house: 1) Drinking a nice bottle of wine for pleasure over dinner wine (~£10) which we will appreciate and guzzling with friends wine where I usually buy a supermarket offer for ~£5

Over say £12 I've only ever bought wine as a gift (or in a restaurant where I'd think £12 were a bargain).

Two Buck Chuck.

Sounds revolting or like lolly water.

I used to pay around $15/16 a bottle but now I find around $20-25. I had a very nice Shiraz some years ago - cost $40. After drinking it I understood the difference between that and their cheaper label.
I had a very nice wine in beij ing which was $8 a bottle. I was surprised how good it was.

Depends who I'm entertaining. Family or good friends (or both).... Anything upwards of £15 a bottle.
Just me.... Maybe a fiver on a NZ Marlborough Estates Sauvignon Blanc from Aldi. It's nice.
I only do white wine, request the diners bring a red and I supply the food and white.
I like champers - blended or otherwise. Not the really cheapo stuff - though. Gives me the jipps.

What's "lolly water"?

In some countries it's an 'Alco-pop' - in others a non-alcoholic fruit drink.... J2o etc.

Two Buck Chuck.

Sounds revolting or like lolly water.

Two buck refers to the cost. US$2.00 is two bucks. Chuck is for Charles Shaw. Nobody really knows where the nickname came from, other than it seems ot have originated in southern California.

What's "lolly water"?

In the interests of reporting back, I did go to Aldi's and it seems they've got a goodish wine section,I didn't try the Macon Village Tony as i'm more into my red but thanks either way.I bought a Crianza for £3.79- not bad but nothing special but as good as anything from other supermarkets that I've paid £7 for.

Now tonight I'm having another Aldi wine,this time it's a Bordeaux ,Chateau Laurencon 2009 for £5.79 and again it's like the above i.e very good and as good as any wine I'd pay a tenner for (Idon't pay that often).

It appears that Aldi is the place to go but don't tell anyone will you ?

,I didn't try the Macon Village Tony as i'm more into my red but thanks either way.

Point taken - and noted with thanks, Lincoln.

It appears that Aldi is the place to go

I am astonished by the quality of the wine, Lincoln.

P.S. Aldi's free-range chicken and sea fish are, imo, superb. But I wouldn't eat anything else from Aldi since it's full of crap, etc.

What's "lolly water"?

In some countries it's an 'Alco-pop' - in others a non-alcoholic fruit drink.... J2o etc.

Lolly water is my name for cheap plonk which is dreadfully sweet and has a lower alcohol content - like this . Yewk, it's bloody revolting. Ever tried this? - that's lolly water.

Or this? - I wouldn't even use it for cooking.

Lolly water has different meanings in different countries.
I know what you mean about the low volume wines.
Friend of ours was round for dinner and brought a bottle of Lambrini. Vile stuff.
We supplied a case of 24 beers and a 4 course meal.
I think she could see we weren't impressed, when we drank the beers and left her to drink the garbage.

Tony will no doubt enjoy the name and the description.

"Ménage à trois... Gasp! We're not becoming monogamous, are we?"

I did indeed appreciate it, sweet Nutrax. Ye'll have to drop by again with some wine - but leave Vinny at home, please. :)

Never more than 10 bucks!

I've been messing about making my own recently, I planted some passin fruits plants a couple of years ago and they've completely covered one of the trees in my garden, I have literally hundreds of them so I've started making wine. I made about 10L last November just to see how it went, this year I plan on filling the cupboards with it.

It takes about 3 months to clear and is reasonably o.k., but I've left 5L almost a year now and am hoping it'll be a bit more complex.

I was quite happy with a three-liter (=four bottles) box of Black Box cabernet sauvignon. Retails here for $25, so $6.25/bottle, but definitely better than you expect for that price.

A friend of mine who's very into wine got into box wines for a while. I tried one she brought on a camping trip and it wasn't bad but there's just something about pouring wine from a bottle that appeals to me.

The decant from the box into a bottle.

Wine is cheap in NL.

Decent wine for daily drinking can be bought for around 3 euro.

We drink quite a bit- perhaps 4-5 bottles a week (for 2 people). Horrible I know0_0 We pay about 5 euro a bottle. If we go out, it's about 20 euro a bottle for the house wine. In fancier restaurants, it's about 7 euro per glass

I recommended Black Box to the place that seems to have the best prices in Baltimore, and they told me they got something called Bota Box that I should try. They sell it at about $15 a three-liter box, less than $4 a bottle, or a little more including sales tax. I will probably get some in October and will try to remember to report back.

Typo in #38-- Then decant from the box into a botttle,

$10-$15 is pretty normal for us. The more we spend/bottle, the less we drink. I have a couple of $30 bottles -- a pinot noir from a small Willamette Valley winery, a sautern (a gift) and a dessert wine, also from a small Willamette Valley winery.

There are a couple good $5-6 Trader Joe's wines.

Sasha, I know people love the Phantom, but I was overall underwhelmed by the recent-ish one. (I think 2010 release). Bogle is a good value and drinkable, but mostly kind of uninspired. Except maybe the petite syrah which is very good.

In Canada we usually pay $13 or $14 for every day wine, occasionally more like $16. The same wines are usually a lot less in the US. For comparison purposes Yellowtail's about $12 in Canada and I think it was $7 in Montana. We try to stay a step up from Yellowtail.

When we go to the US in the summer the grocery store always has huge discounts, so we buy whatever has the biggest discount. So this year that was a pinot noir usually $32 on for $17, and another pinot noir usually $24 on for about $16.

We've only had 1 of them and it was good, had more going on than the cheaper pinot noires, but I have decided that maybe I'm just not really a pinot noir person. I like my cab sauvs and my shirazes.

Oh, in France I tried an 8 euro bottle - kind of bleah. Tried a 12 euro bottle - also a bit bleah. Went for a <5 euro bottle and liked it better than either of the first 2, and bought that one regularly.