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Yup. Been around a while. Pretty good for the price.
Found this red in Sainsbury’s on offer £7 a bottle
Me & the mrs both think it’s really good.
Porta 6.
Yup. Been around a while. Pretty good for the price.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
It has been a staple in our house for a couple of years.Originally Posted by lenlec
For the price, it is about as good as it gets IMO.
At £7 a bottle it’s a great buy I think
And if you buy 6 at the mo
Works out at about £5.20 with the 25% off
Thanks, will stock up with a few.
There's a Reserva Porta 6 for like a quid more and it's very good too
If you like that I think you will like this Negroamaro from Coop as well. Used to be cheaper but I’d still say good value.
https://www.coop.co.uk/products/vanita-negroamaro
Rush forth unto Tesco and buy some of this:
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-G...ucts/268451032
Piccini Memoro red. It's £7.50 with a clubcard and currently 25% off when you buy six. I always have a few bottles kicking around and friends are buying it too now.
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The old Yellow Tail Shiraz is a consistently potable budget drop in the UK and USA.
Question from a very infrequent wine/alcohol drinker: if I bought 6 of these, how long would they be "good" for? I have maybe 2 bottles of wine in an average year.
Yep, been a regular bottle in our house as well. Very easy drinking.
I like this one as well:
I’ll second that. Yellow Tail Shiraz is a damn fine wine for the money, although in Sainsburys it has crept up to £7.75 a bottle. Not so long ago it was £6.00
Also found it in NZ when we were out there
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fine wines properly stored last a decade or two.
this is nice plonk, but plonk non the less - even stored in a cool dark place (on side if cork closure) i doubt these would last more than 3 or 4 years - this stuff is made to be drunk quite young.
That sounds ideal, cheers!
This is one of my favourites for under a tenner if you buy six!
https://www.waitrosecellar.com/all-w...passime-607989
Or this but a little more expensive; https://www.laithwaites.co.uk/product/0022622
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Enjoyed a bottle only the weekend before last (and several before that). Has anyone tried this...link?
If you only drink two bottles a year, surely you could try something a bit sexier than £5.25 from Sainsburys!
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I would thoroughly recommend Cabalie from Laithwaites too! Also, the Aussie Shiraz 'Black Stump' is a favorite of mine as well
Interesting. Is this one available in local supermarkets also ?
I’ll try a bottle or 2
Cabalie is one of my favourites, big hitter and great value. After this point, my ability to discern nuances goes off a cliff.
Will try the Terre based on you liking the former. Thanks.
You’re welcome!
Another to try if you like the full bodied wines.
https://www.justincases.co.uk/baglio...BoC5bMQAvD_BwE
Toro Loco from Aldi has been our cheapie red wine of choice for several years now.
Has had a huge price hike in percentage terms like everything else post Covid, but still under a fiver per bottle :-)
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Toscana Rosso from Aldi is also rather good for around £10, was save £1.50 recently so stocked up.
Got this from Sainsburys yesterday
Works out under £6 quid a bottle if you buy 6.
Haven’t tried it yet. My mate said it’s decent
Reserva de bonpas
It is nice.
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
Tried a bottle yesterday, .mm nice, the 2nd half just now, just that bit better so, will be continuing the tastings.Found this red in Sainsbury’s on offer £7 a bottle
Me & the mrs both think it’s really good.
Porta 6.
It is. A nice Cote du Rhône.
The Taste the Difference Cote du Rhone Villages (also currently on offer) is also good.
This is very nice. Goes down perhaps a bit too easily. £9.75 at Tesco (maybe less with Clubcard).
Think I got carried away a little.
Although, Villa Maria NZ Sav Blanc is my absolute favourite and for me the best of the NZ Sav Blancs, and I have tried many.
Perfect for the long warm summer nights, and at less than £6.40 per bottle with all the discounts applied, an absolute steal.
Will see us through until the clocks go back.
Bloody hell. Happy drinking. From Sainsburys?Think I got carried away a little.
Although, Villa Maria NZ Sav Blanc is my absolute favourite and for me the best of the NZ Sav Blancs, and I have tried many.
Perfect for the long warm summer nights, and at less than £6.40 per bottle with all the discounts applied, an absolute steal.
Will see us through until the clocks go back.
Tesco as they have a similar deal going on. Except the Porta 6 which was much better value in Sainsburys.
Cost a fair few quid, but looking on the bright side, the weekly shop will be a few quid cheaper for a few months.
We get another 15% off as wellThink I got carried away a little.
Although, Villa Maria NZ Sav Blanc is my absolute favourite and for me the best of the NZ Sav Blancs, and I have tried many.
Perfect for the long warm summer nights, and at less than £6.40 per bottle with all the discounts applied, an absolute steal.
Will see us through until the clocks go back.
Just opened a bottle of the Cabalie on the back of this thread, very nice indeed, so thank you! :-)
Glad it worked for you. Got one on the go now.
If you liked it, don’t order any Porta 6 from Sainsbury’s as it’s rubbish by comparison, 5 bottle left to gift!
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Yes, I tried a Porta 6 earlier in the week after seeing this thread, only the 1 bottle, and agree the Cabalie is much nicer to my taste.
I’m going to try the cabalie now. What’s the difference between the two?
I enjoyed the porta 6.
No tried the porta but from distant memory the Cabalie was lush, fruity, some herbiness...???
Porta 6 at 5.20 per bottle. Where can you any half decent wine for a fiver these days? This is a very good bargain for absolutely no money.
There is pretty much a million bottles of wine out there that will be nicer for more money.
But for the price, a great honest bottle that is better than many, but not all, more expensive bottles.
Not in the UK.
Always difficult to compete with wine producing countries who apply very little tax, when a UK bottle has a minimum duty and Vat of circa £3.50, and then has to be shipped to destination.
I am amazed, if you pick carefully, just what quality value you can get in the U.K. for reasonable cost.
Hey, no, I´m happy you still can, it´s just about the only remaining pleasure my old mans got.
That, and visiting you in Spain, I am sure.Hey, no, I´m happy you still can, it´s just about the only remaining pleasure my old mans got.
Sadly Mum´s Alz-dementia has put an end to that, last visit here was ´22, they came with my Sis, Ma struggled somewhat ...the old boy is old school, won´t be a burden, wouldn´t come again ´´not with things the way they are´´. Ma´s just been sent home from hospital, broke her hip about 3 weeks back...the ´´care package´´ sounds somewhat sketchy, but she´ll be happier at home and i guess they needed the bed...it´s just whether the old man can cope with her more reduced state...the Carers in his house will take some readjustment, he´s like me or vice versa, territorial.
Sorry thread deviation. House wine here is Thader a blend of monastrell, tempranillo and Cab Sauv from a bodega up the road in Jumilla, we´ve done a tasting or 2 there... though it´s sold in Mercadona, 3.80 euro...I dunno how they do it,
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Only have the occasional drop but find this is a firm favourite here.
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