Bottle of wine for €3

questionmark?

Tesco currently have marques de leon white wine(750ml) on offer for €3. And yes it is nice

jaffa20

It's nice for stripping paint alright:D

thenightrider

Who cares if it is nice waht is the % ?

questionmark?

Its 11% thenightrider.

and jaffa20 don't judge anything on price i had the experience of sharing a 20 odd euro bottle of wine around two weeks ago and i thought they had put vinegar with a hint of ****e in my glass i mean it was utter muck but the self-professed wine connoisseur thought it was the bee's knees!

thenightrider

Thanks 11 % sounds good to me as all wine tastes the same to me not a big fan of wine but ill drink it at that price hope its in all tescos.

latenia

There's nothing wrong with cheap wine per se but when it goes this low you're probably in wino territory. Bear in mind that the duty on this bottle of wine is €2.05 and that the price also includes VAT at 21%, the cost of the bottle, transport and any profit Tesco make. The actual booze probably costs about 5c. Spend an extra 2 or 3 euro and you get an exponential increase of quality.

Sir Oxman

latenia wrote: »

There's nothing wrong with cheap wine per se but when it goes this low you're probably in wino territory. Bear in mind that the duty on this bottle of wine is €2.05 and that the price also includes VAT at 21%, the cost of the bottle, transport and any profit Tesco make. The actual booze probably costs about 5c. Spend an extra 2 or 3 euro and you get an exponential increase of quality.

:D:D:D:D:D

Slunk

Watching a programme on BBC last week showing how they make this cheap wine, rotten grapes, fish bladders and a **** load of chemicals. Really nasty stuff. Said most wines in tesco are only worth the price when they are on offer for half price. Even then it is pushing it.

Cant find video on youtube but heres an article listing some of the stuff:

Link

run_Forrest_run

Slunk wrote: »

Watching a programme on BBC last week showing how they make this cheap wine, rotten grapes, fish bladders and a **** load of chemicals. Really nasty stuff. Said most wines in tesco are only worth the price when they are on offer for half price. Even then it is pushing it.

Cant find video on youtube but heres an article listing some of the stuff:

Link

:eek:
what was the name of that programme?

Slunk

Alex Riley - Britains most disgusting drinks. Can only find youtube links for the food episode. Thats not pretty either. Making sausages, hot dogs, chicken kievs etc.

Sue Rocks

id be sceptical but at €3 ill take a chance

seriouslywhat

Now dont get me wrong I like a bargain as much as the next man but seriously people €3 for a bottle of wine. That can not be good. Spend an extra euro or two for the love of god.

As far as looking for bargain wines go to Molloys they do two bottles for 15/16/17 quid and also have cheaper stuff too bottles for around 5quid that would be far better than the muck you are about to subject yourselves to.

Even try Lidl they have a few spanish reds that arent too bad for about the 5/6 euro mark.

BluesBerry

questionmark? wrote: »

Tesco currently have marques de leon white wine(750ml) on offer for €3. And yes it is nice

The marques de leon red wine is lovely I hope thats 3 euro too might pick up a few bottles

seriouslywhat

BluesBerry wrote: »

The marques de leon red wine is lovely I hope thats 3 euro too might pick up a few bottles

wow there'll be some painful hangovers for some people in the coming days by the looks of things.

brave or stupid I'm not sure which.

anniehoo

Slunk wrote: »

fish bladders

WTF?? :eek: ...in wine, why???

ButtersSuki

Ok, it is in NI BUT Asda have Yellow Tail Pinot Grigio @ £3STG (approx. €3.51) if you're in the vicinity.......

It's normally around €9.50 here, Tesco have it "on offer" at @ €6.00 at the moment.

slavedave

Have to chip in here. Fish swim bladders sounds dramatic - but it is common practice to use "finings" as it is called in many alcoholic products esp beer. Won't do you any harm at all. A bit sensationalist to be honest.
What I do want to know though is who first thought "Let me just clarify this beer with a sprinkling of fish swim bladder. Now where did I put that stash of mine that I had been saving for a rainy day?"

paddyp

When my dad made wine the finings were shrimp, now I think they use bentonite in the good kits which is basically mud. Don't know what you'd choose swim bladders over mud there is already a huge industry built up around bentonites and its dirt cheap.

seriouslywhat

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Ok, it is in NI BUT Asda have Yellow Tail Pinot Grigio @ £3STG (approx. €3.51) if you're in the vicinity.......

It's normally around €9.50 here, Tesco have it "on offer" at @ €6.00 at the moment.

Thats more like it. €3.51 and it wont taste like urine.

Might pop up to Newry this weekend actually. Get the xmas stash in early to avoid the crazy traffic and people etc..

BluesBerry

seriouslywhat wrote: »

wow there'll be some painful hangovers for some people in the coming days by the looks of things.

brave or stupid I'm not sure which.

I cant talk for the white wine but the red wine is nice I have drank it a couple of time's before and never had a hangover with that wine

ButtersSuki

seriouslywhat wrote: »

Thats more like it. €3.51 and it wont taste like urine.

Might pop up to Newry this weekend actually. Get the xmas stash in early to avoid the crazy traffic and people etc..

Think the nearest decent-sized Asda (and therefore decent-sized off-licence) is just outside Belfast at the Kennedy Centre........maybe wrong on this (I was wrong once before )

schemingbohemia

If you're heading to Asda specifically to buy this wine, I'd ring in advance to find out if they have much of it. I was up in Belfast recently and having checked Asda online went to buy a good few bottles of ale in one of their Belfast branches, it had the worst selection of ales I'd ever seen in a Northern Irish supermarket, they had only 1 of the beers I was interested in.

TM

anniehoo wrote: »

WTF?? :eek: ...in wine, why???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isinglass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finings

Update: sorry - only saw earlier replies now!