Where your money really goes when you buy wine

[Fnaar]

For a truly effective way to get utterly battered, mix it with vodka to create Electric Soup.

Do you find that croutons enhance this most enticing sounding broth?

 

[AndyRM]

Do you find that croutons enhance this most enticing sounding broth?

Once made Electric Punch which had bits of orange floating in it. Really classy affair which we made in a bin.

Other delights I have created include prison wine (truly awful) and a marrow based beverage which I thought was going to kill me. Melon booze was pretty good though.

Looking back on my younger days, it's some kind of miracle that I'm still alive.

 

[Brains]

Methylated Spirits from your local hardware shop - £1.25/500ml

If you can buy it at anything much under £3.50/500ml then tell me where!

 

[swee'pea99]

Do people really spend five pounds on a bottle of wine? This one's well tasty, and it's only £4.49, which means the actual wine only costs -60p, apparently. I call that jolly good value.

 

[vernon]

Methylated Spirits from your local hardware shop - £1.25/500ml

I wish I could buy the stuff at twice that price!

 

[PK99]

Do people really spend five pounds on a bottle of wine? This one's well tasty, and it's only £4.49, which means the actual wine only costs -60p, apparently. I call that jolly good value.

good example of bulk produced wine taking advantage of economies of scale at all stages of the process, plus packaging, transport and retailer margins will have been shaved - a bit like Ribble bikes, serviceable and value but no world beater.

from the tesco web site:

Created in 1988 in the area of Grande Bourgogne, GVS is a specialised company dealing with bottling wine for wholesalers and supermarkets. In 2008, 38 million bottles were produced, with approximately 80% of production being exported outside of France. The winery is also BRC and IFS accredited. GVS are highly competent in supplying the best quality at a reasonable price to meet the specific needs of each and every customer. Their viticultural expertise allows the team to provide different types of wine catering for the particular market in mind, in terms of both liquid and label/packaging requirements – whether this is for old label or branded wines.

"Nobody's claiming this is any better than fairly basic, but the fact that it's drinkable at all at this price is a near miracle. In fact, it's better than plenty of Cotes du Rhone at about the £6 mark: plenty of gutsy, peppery red fruit."​

Andrew Neather - Evening Standard 12/07/2012​

 

[TVC]

My mates behind the bins swear by Tennents Super. Actually, they swear at anything.

 

[oldfatfool]

50/50 mix of special brew and Barley wine, slips down a treat.

 

[User169]

a marrow based beverage which I thought was going to kill me. .

My Dad worked his way through most of the hedgerow and veg patch when he was into wine making. I think the marrow one was the only one which he couldn't manage to drink.

 

[dan_bo]

50/50 mix of special brew and Barley wine, slips down a treat.

A long, long time ago me and a waveydaveygravy nicked a crate of gold lable from a workplace. Never been so ill. Ever.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

A long, long time ago me and a waveydaveygravy nicked a crate of gold lable from a workplace. Never been so ill. Ever.

Still got a bottle of Gold Label tucked away for a rainy day. Or summat. Michael Jackson, not that one, used to really like it IIRC. It's one of those drinks that just tastes of alcohol.

 

[dan_bo]

Still got a bottle of Gold Label tucked away for a rainy day. Or summat. Michael Jackson, not that one, used to really like it IIRC. It's one of those drinks that just tastes of alcohol.

Bleh. I also once supped half a dozen pints of 'maydaymayday' in the flea and firkin after I'd already had a skinful, on the day Guns n roses didn't turn up at maine road. I said earlier I had never been so ill- I lied.


I'm glad I've grown up. These kids don't know how to binge drink these days.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I'm glad I've grown up. These kids don't know how to binge drink these days.

Unless you've vomited purple you've not lived!

 

[dan_bo]

Unless you've vomited purple you've not lived!

Here's how long ago that incedent was- I had a GCSE maths exam the next day.....

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Here's how long ago that incedent was- I had a GCSE maths exam the next day.....

After 1985 then!