I'm new to this forum but would like to make a contribution. I buy wine in the UK at benchmark prices. For example Californian merlot from lidl is available at 4pounds 65 pence or Australian yellowtail for as cheap as 5 pounds a bottle. Such excellent wines are simply not available unless you are prepared to spend perhaps 3 times the price I have mentioned. Thus for me wine in Thailand is a non starter. On the other hand beer is more reasonably priced bearing something of an equivalence to U.K. Prices. And beer is a good compliment to curry food at least of the Indian kind. My experience in China, Yangshuo, in 2011 was that beer was so cheap then that the local climbing company allowed 2 free beers a day to climbers and staff members alike. However we live in the present and the BREXIT devaluation to around 41 baht to the pound is a severe blow to U.K. Tourists an expats alike.
Red Wine - Best Buy?
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I'm new to this forum but would like to make a contribution. I buy wine in the UK at benchmark prices. For example Californian merlot from lidl is available at 4pounds 65 pence or Australian yellowtail for as cheap as 5 pounds a bottle. Such excellent wines are simply not available unless you are prepared to spend perhaps 3 times the price I have mentioned. Thus for me wine in Thailand is a non starter. On the other hand beer is more reasonably priced bearing something of an equivalence to U.K. Prices. And beer is a good compliment to curry food at least of the Indian kind. My experience in China, Yangshuo, in 2011 was that beer was so cheap then that the local climbing company allowed 2 free beers a day to climbers and staff members alike. However we live in the present and the BREXIT devaluation to around 41 baht to the pound is a severe blow to U.K. Tourists an expats alike.