Affordable Wine

[C8RKH]

Thought a wee little thread about some affordable wine for people who prefer drinking the stuff to posing about the stuff.

My starter for ten is an Aldi wine. They are doing a really nice Gavi at the moment. A white with a lovely straw colour. Quite dry. Nice flavour. 

Goes really well with Steak surprisingly, especially when accompanied with a simple green salad with tomatoes and a nice olive oil / balsamic dressing.

 

[pete]

subject cheered me up no end🍷

[C8RKH]

Thought I'd add a link. You need a link to show you know what your talking about. At £6.99 it's very good value as a quaffing wine.

https://www.aldi.co.uk/gavi-di-gavi-docg/p/083575209556200

[pete]

Cynical but nice link

[Bibs]

I've been right off of white wine for a couple of years now, no idea why especially in these nice warm evenings. Been enjoy a lot of Malbecs recently, French much more than S. American ones. I was using Virgin Wines a lot, even more so recently, nice to try bottles I'd not usually pick up from a shelf. 

[mayevora]

3 hours ago, C8RKH said:

.My starter for ten is an Aldi wine.

 

Agree. You can still get a reasonable paletteable 
wine for £5-6 from there at the mo. 
I also get hold of some of the older reds and sit on them for even more years. I’ve had a bad last month where I opened a bottle of 33 year old red and it was corked and a 40 year old Port and both had to be tipped down the sink. Horrible 🤨

[C8RKH]

The lesson there is surely to drink not hoard!

Aldi sell several wines that consistently do well in reviews, and being a mainland Europe based outlet they have some slightly unusual, interesting, but very nice EU wines.

I've a couple of wine snob mates who chuck good money at wine who've loved some of my Aldi wine. I just tell them I got it in specially from Majestics..... 

Personally I struggle to tell the difference sometimes but I do know what I like so stick roughly to those wines and regions.