How much would you pay for a bottle of wine?
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I generally stop at about £15; you can get a good Margaux for that for example. I have drunk some expensive clarets, yes, they were mostly good, but its pot luck how good it will be due to the variability of the cork. Thats why younger drinking wines are safer, the cork has had less time to affect the wine. Generally then, I think clarets are overrated. And personally, I find Burgundian reds horrible. Riojas are always good though, and there are some excellent Extremadura/Portuguese wines I have drunk (but almost impossible to find here). As for glugging, its the bag in a box, 12 euros for 5 liters. Good every day plonk thats as cheap as you would want and goes down well. (From a nearby vinyard).
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fat_boy wrote:
the bag in a box
Chateau de Cardboard.
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fat_boy wrote:
the bag in a box
Chateau de Cardboard.
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Its not bad stuff, believe me. You would happilly pay £4 a bottle in the UK for it.
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ROFL... I was referring to wine being served at "room temperature", which is defined as 18C (somewhere - ask a wine snob). However, room temperature here isn't that most of the time... matter of fact, it's more like 24C here right now, and it's 22:12.
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_Damian S_ wrote:
it's more like 24C here right now, and it's 22:12.
Wow! Makes me break out in a sweat just thinking about it. Possibly a good thing, as its about 7C here at noon.
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£5 for a decent one? £10 for a good wine? £100 for an EXCELLENT one? How about £4,000 for one that doesn't exsist? I was talking to my wine suppliers, I buy it by the dozen, and he was telling me about a recent auction and 2008 Lafite was selling at around £50,000 for a case. This is for a wine that is still in the barrel and won't be bottled until 2018 and will only be drinkable around 2030. You can only buy it by the case at the moment, but I thought it was good value. The current prediction is that it will worth around £250,000 per dozen by the time it's released in 2020! :omg:
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Its not bad stuff, believe me. You would happilly pay £4 a bottle in the UK for it.
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct from natural variation." Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville
fat_boy wrote:
Its not bad stuff, believe me.
I'm sure it's great... I quite like supporting some of the boutique wineries around here... There's one about 45 mins up the road called the Black Cat, and the winery is inside an old Morgue... still has the hole in the floor where the coffins would be lowered and raised...
fat_boy wrote:
You would happilly pay £4 a bottle in the UK for it.
Seeing as I am in Australia, the travel cost might make it not such great value for money!!
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fat_boy wrote:
Its not bad stuff, believe me.
I'm sure it's great... I quite like supporting some of the boutique wineries around here... There's one about 45 mins up the road called the Black Cat, and the winery is inside an old Morgue... still has the hole in the floor where the coffins would be lowered and raised...
fat_boy wrote:
You would happilly pay £4 a bottle in the UK for it.
Seeing as I am in Australia, the travel cost might make it not such great value for money!!
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Yeah, replace 'you' with 'one' in my sentence and it makes better sense!
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct from natural variation." Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville
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Typical bloody Pom. Wine fridge, not beer fridge, 14-19C, depending on the grape, though I'm happy to branch out and make generalisations about Poms and their confusion surrounding the temperature beer should be served at. I guess for some, 14-19C would be considered a warm day. [Edit: looks like I was slow off the mark. Small, manly nod in Damian's direction. Atta boy]
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To be honest, the people buying it now will never see it let alone taste it. In reality they're buying a future.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
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£5 for a decent one? £10 for a good wine? £100 for an EXCELLENT one? How about £4,000 for one that doesn't exsist? I was talking to my wine suppliers, I buy it by the dozen, and he was telling me about a recent auction and 2008 Lafite was selling at around £50,000 for a case. This is for a wine that is still in the barrel and won't be bottled until 2018 and will only be drinkable around 2030. You can only buy it by the case at the moment, but I thought it was good value. The current prediction is that it will worth around £250,000 per dozen by the time it's released in 2020! :omg:
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
$20 to $30 US.
John
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£5 for a decent one? £10 for a good wine? £100 for an EXCELLENT one? How about £4,000 for one that doesn't exsist? I was talking to my wine suppliers, I buy it by the dozen, and he was telling me about a recent auction and 2008 Lafite was selling at around £50,000 for a case. This is for a wine that is still in the barrel and won't be bottled until 2018 and will only be drinkable around 2030. You can only buy it by the case at the moment, but I thought it was good value. The current prediction is that it will worth around £250,000 per dozen by the time it's released in 2020! :omg:
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
You can only buy it by the case at the moment, but I thought it was good value. The current prediction is that it will worth around £250,000 per dozen by the time it's released in 2020!
That is until people realize that wine is just spoiled grape juice. ;P
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_Damian S_ wrote:
it's more like 24C here right now, and it's 22:12.
Wow! Makes me break out in a sweat just thinking about it. Possibly a good thing, as its about 7C here at noon.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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£5 for a decent one? £10 for a good wine? £100 for an EXCELLENT one? How about £4,000 for one that doesn't exsist? I was talking to my wine suppliers, I buy it by the dozen, and he was telling me about a recent auction and 2008 Lafite was selling at around £50,000 for a case. This is for a wine that is still in the barrel and won't be bottled until 2018 and will only be drinkable around 2030. You can only buy it by the case at the moment, but I thought it was good value. The current prediction is that it will worth around £250,000 per dozen by the time it's released in 2020! :omg:
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
2008 Lafite was selling at around £50,000 for a case.
Holly crap! These are 5000 bottles of quality vodka!
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