Commercial wine prices

[Richard S]

Come on, admit it, what is the most you have paid for a bottle of commercial wine?

I paid £12 for a bottle of Marquis de somethingorother and to be honest I have made better stuff from the Beaverdale kits.

[NorthernWiner]

Once paid £90 ($180 US) for a nice bottle of Barolo to celebrate the wife's and my 10th anniversary. I don't know if it was worth that much but it was definitely better than anything I've made...

...yet.

[Hippie]

If I can make any sort of drinkable wine at all, all the commercial ones are too expensive!

[Mamgiowl]

Yeah, I'm with Hippie. I was once given a bottle of wine as an award for something or other. Much was made of the fact that it cost over £30. It was absolutely horrible. I used it for cooking some cod in. Didn't taste too bad then

[Ben]

£2.58 - it was the only bottle of wine I have ever bought, and I only paid for a quarter of it. We got it to accompany a roast dinner. It was a Soave (we pronounced it swarve; obviously wrong) and it will forever be referred to as the worst wine and we compare everything to it.

[lockwood1956]

The co-op is selling chateauneuf-du-pape for a tenner, worth a try...

I liked it a lot

regards
bob

[Hippie]

You are such a lush Bob! Don't you have plenty of your own to drink?

[medpretzel]

I refuse to pay anything over £6 for a bottle of wine.

[silverfox]

Hi all.
I was tempted a couple of Christmas's ago to pay £12 for a bottle of Barolo. What a mistake. I had never tried Barolo before but had people tell me about it.
Anyway it was supposed to be "E" bodied.
It was a complete disapointment ,more like an "B" & was not very good.
I will not pay that much again without having tried some of it first.
I will stick with the £3-£5 bottles I normally get.

Silverfox

[BamaTim]

Back around 1980 I paid what would be 25 pounds now which was $51.00 w/tax back then for a bottle of white wine. It was pretty good but I wouldn't pay that now for one. The last that I bought was about $10.00 for a bottle of French red wine to use as a topper off and it would suffice for that purpose, BARELY. God, some of those commercial wines are worse than mine in a bad batch so I think, as my brother put it when he tasted of that "French s_ _ _!" as he put it so well, I'll stick to Alabama red-neck technology. If it's locally grown it's got to be better, I may use some weird ingredients for some of my wines but as long as I can drink it along with family and friends who cares if about the only cost involved was a couple pounds of sugar to the gallon. A good muscadine wine will compare anyday to a French or California wine in my opinion and for a lot less money.

[Hippie]

You can say that again! I have been drinking some superb '04 batch 1 Red Muscadine!

It is aging oh so very well!

The '04 batch 2 is still in 6 gallon bulk!

[BamaTim]

Hippie you sound like you're a muscadine addict, lol. If a friend's possum grapes does good next year I want to add some of those to a batch of 'dine. He brought me a couple of clusters that were hanging full this year and they had a pretty good taste. He and I went over to his place and pulled the vine from the tree that it was up and rerouted it back into the opening we had cleared under the trees a couple of years ago when he got some beehives. We put some posts in the ground and stapled some wires on them and tied the vine onto them. If a plane flies over head they'll wonder what those rednecks down there are up to, the vine is spread out like a big "T" now with vine tips going straight ahead and some left and some right. Now it'll be my luck that next year's crop will be a poor one.

[Hippie]

Funny, we have a town 20 miles from here named Possum Grape. Lots of them here also. I have never found any ripe enough for wine. Seems the critters take them all before they get ripe enough.

I have been addicted to muscadines since my Grandma and Momma used to send me and my 3 brothers out to the woods with 5 gallon buckets and tell us don't come back until they are full. Hard to pick 5 gallons of wild muscadines when you are hungry!

I would like to have a few acres of woods if they harbored a few wild vines.

[BamaTim]

Whenever I'm down in the woods working on my patches and spot a muscadine vine that has some on it in the fall I go and check it out. If there are no vines already on the ground there soon will be so they'll root. Then I'll go back and get a cutting or two and come put it out on my muscadine fences. I've got several hundred feet of fencing now covered with muscadines and scuppernongs. I want a cutting off that possum grape at my friend's place over there this fall.

[Hippie]

Jack Keller has told of different wild grape species that flower during the same time hybridizing naturally.