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[Steel Icarus]

Kooliburra Cabernet Shiraz (purple label), Aldi, £4.29, 13.5%, tastes good

 

[Red Cat]

Les Cardinaux - Famile Perrin from the Co-op. It's a Cote Du Rhone.

I stopped drinking regularly for years, but have got back into having a glass of red in the evening since lockdown. I decided to buy some French tonight and spend a couple of quid more than usual, this was about £8, it was reduced a little. It's very nice.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Campo Viejo is overpriced in the UK. We pay about 3€ for it here. I don't drink it because there's better for that price. The UK is ripped off.

At the moment we're drinking a lot of tempranillo wines. Lightish, slightly dry and good value.

Mrs D has suddenly got a taste for sweet pinks. Not my favourite, but they're OK when very chilled.

It's mostly because the tax is so high.

Examples from Decanter magazine:

£5 bottle / tax £3.06 / wine 31p
£7.50 bottle / tax £3.48 / wine £1.43
£10 bottle / tax £3.90 / wine £2.70
£20 bottle / tax £5.56 / wine £7.03

Tax on wine: How much do you pay in the UK? - Ask Decanter

What is the duty tax on wine in the UK? And does it matter how much money you spend on a bottle of wine? See this graphic for a guide...

www.decanter.com

So if you spend a fiver, only six percent of that is the wine, spend a tenner, and more than a quarter of the purchase price is for the wine, spend £20 and it's around a third. Hence even spending a little bit more gets you a better quality of wine.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I've been drinking quite a bit of the Co-op's Fairtrade Organic Malbec recently. The Co-op's quick shop home delivery service has a limited range of products, so I've been getting this, at £7.50 a bottle. It's drinkable, I quite like it.

On-demand groceries | Co-op delivery

quickshop.coop.co.uk

 

[Mattym]

Dark Horse is a nice bottle- Cabernet Sauvignon or Malbec, but the CS is really smooth. There is a white as well, I think, but I don't drink it and possibly another red (but I might be confusing it with Barefoot wines).