As wine drinkers know the price of wine in Thailand is very expensive and poor quality. Even something thats slightly drinkable like Castle Creek is 990 thb for 3 litres. I am on a short holiday back to the UK and yesterday I went on a day drip to Calais France. I bought a few 3 litre boxes of JP Chenet a lovely red French wine, it was 6.86 euros or 310 thb. It just goes to show how expensive wine is in Thailand.

Cheapest I have found over here is Tipco Cherry Berry juice, lemon juice, sugar and yeast, and a couple of weeks patience!

I'm also in the UK until next week and been chucking as much red stuff down my neck as possible ranging 4-6 quid a bottle in the faint hope I will end up sick of it.  but alas....????  

13 minutes ago, sammieuk1 said:

I'm also in the UK until next week and been chucking as much red stuff down my neck as possible ranging 4-6 quid a bottle in the faint hope I will end up sick of it.  but alas....????  

Give your liver a break and get back to Thailand ????

 

1 hour ago, jimn said:

It just goes to show how expensive wine is in Thailand.

Yes it's a drug (legal though) hence they tax it heavily.

Last time I looked at customs fee for good wine...400 %....

10 minutes ago, Puchaiyank said:

Last time I looked at customs fee for good wine...400 %....

Foreign nations ought to charge a 400% tariff on Thai rice, shrimp, beer, and auto parts.

OP you shoudn't drink such shit. In France any wine under 5 Euros ( or 175 Bahts)  a 75ml bottle is undrinkable. Such a bottle would cost you here about 500 Bahts. So if you can't afford 700 Bahts a bottle it is better you stick to beer.

Interestingly wine I bought 3 years ago for that price still costs the same even though some people say that taxes have increased.

16 minutes ago, Puchaiyank said:

Last time I looked at customs fee for good wine...400 %....

Australian or Chile?

Edited May 24, 20197 yr by marcusarelus

23 minutes ago, Puchaiyank said:

Last time I looked at customs fee for good wine...400 %....

I guess Mont Clare wont be on that list  

4 minutes ago, monkeycu said:

I guess Mont Clare wont be on that list  

should be against trade descriptions to even mention the word wine on the labelling

Just now, Sticky Wicket said:

should be against trade descriptions to even mention the word wine on the labelling

Couldn't agree more, but its fun to pour it on an ants nest  

I've got to the point now where I've completely stopped buying wine.

Prefer just to buy the odd bottle of Taylor's Port now and devour it with some lovely cheese, biscuits and cold cuts

 

19 hours ago, wgdanson said:

Cheapest I have found over here is Tipco Cherry Berry juice, lemon juice, sugar and yeast, and a couple of weeks patience!

Unfortunately I stopped drinking wine in Thailand.  Because of the tax increase, Thailand is now flooded by very bad quality wine and their people are now drinking pure alcohol with an effect on their health and family.

 

 

 

 

Anyone taken up making wine at home?

6 minutes ago, robertson468 said:

Anyone taken up making wine at home?

See my post no 2.

Cherry Berry juice is OK cos it has grape juice in it. Apple & pomegranite makes  a reasonable rose.

Thaibrewhouse or other online places for the yeast.

19 hours ago, wgdanson said:

Cheapest I have found over here is Tipco Cherry Berry juice, lemon juice, sugar and yeast, and a couple of weeks patience!

Would you be so kind as to post the recipe please. Also interested to know how you get it to clear, no room to put a demijohn upright in my fridges.

Edited May 25, 20197 yr by jesimps

Fascinating- ANOTHER 'Wine in Thailand' thread. it's almost as if the search function did not exist.

9 minutes ago, jesimps said:

Would you be so kind as to post the recipe please.

That IS the recipe. 6 litres juice, 500 - 1000 gm sugar. I use an hydrometer to see what the potential ABV will be. Squeeze a lemon, and yeast obtainable online from several online shops in Bkk. All in a plastic bucket with a sealed top for about 14 days, til stops bubbling. Syphone into clean beer bottles. I have a crown capper, or corks with plastic tops. Leave for as long as possible.

It is a good idea to have it on going, ie do a batch every week so that consumption does not exceed production !

Edited May 25, 20197 yr by wgdanson

1 minute ago, wgdanson said:

That IS the recipe. 6 litres juice, 500 - 1000 gm sugar. I use an hydrometer to see what the potential ABV will be. Squeeze a lemon, and yeast obtainable online from several online shops in Bkk. All in a plastic bucket for about 14 days, til stops bubbling. Syphone into clean beer bottles. I have a crown capper, or corks with plastic tops. Leave for as long as possible.

It is a good idea to have it on going, ie do a batch every week so that consumption does not exceed production !

I assume you are talking about wine yeast?

I made 'cider' quite a few years ago using apple juice and it was just about drinkable. 

Gave up after that

 

Anything has got to be better than the filth they sell here and at least then you aren't funding the govt further with ridiculous taxes

 

2 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

That IS the recipe. 6 litres juice, 500 - 1000 gm sugar. I use an hydrometer to see what the potential ABV will be. Squeeze a lemon, and yeast obtainable online from several online shops in Bkk. All in a plastic bucket for about 14 days, til stops bubbling. Syphone into clean beer bottles. I have a crown capper, or corks with plastic tops. Leave for as long as possible.

It is a good idea to have it on going, ie do a batch every week so that consumption does not exceed production !

Many thanks for that I'll give it a whirl when I gather the bits and pieces. Please also see the same edited post re the clearing process.

I've given up drinking wine here, simply can't afford anything drinkable. Stick to beer instead - and even that is getting expensive.

15 minutes ago, jesimps said:

Would you be so kind as to post the recipe please. Also interested to know how you get it to clear, no room to put a demijohn upright in my fridges.

 

5 minutes ago, jesimps said:

Many thanks for that I'll give it a whirl when I gather the bits and pieces. Please also see the same edited post re the clearing process.

After two weeks in the fermenter I usually syphon into a 10 litre glass container, hence only doing 6 litres. Put a Camden tablet in and it stops the fermenting and prevents oxidisation. A week in there and then into the bottles. Mine seems to clear quite nicely itself. Then I store the bottles under the sink for a month if I can wait that long. And a couple of days in the fridge before supping.

It's not Beajolais Nouvea, but it has the desired effect at minimal cost. Makes good Sangria too.

Living in Nakhon Sawan for 15 years plus I've yet to see a Thai person even look at the wine shelves yet alone buy a bottle.

 Quite obviously another tax on foreigners who are expected to buy mixed rubbish for a very high price.

11 minutes ago, Sticky Wicket said:

I assume you are talking about wine yeast?

I made 'cider' quite a few years ago using apple juice and it was just about drinkable. 

Gave up after that

 

Anything has got to be better than the filth they sell here and at least then you aren't funding the govt further with ridiculous taxes

 

Last time from UK I brough a John Bull Country Cider kit, which was basically a can of concentrated apple juice and a packet of yeast. Made 20 litres of wonderful cider, nice and fizzy but strong.

I am currently trying Tesco Apple Juice, which says 100% pure. Got some cider yeast from Thaibrewshop online...99 Bht  a packet, but only need half for 8 litres.

11 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

 

After two weeks in the fermenter I usually syphon into a 10 litre glass container, hence only doing 6 litres. Put a Camden tablet in and it stops the fermenting and prevents oxidisation. A week in there and then into the bottles. Mine seems to clear quite nicely itself. Then I store the bottles under the sink for a month if I can wait that long. And a couple of days in the fridge before supping.

It's not Beajolais Nouvea, but it has the desired effect at minimal cost. Makes good Sangria too.

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Edited May 25, 20197 yr by Sticky Wicket

its a closed shop monopoly, which of course you know, foreign wine taxed heavily, to protect the Thai <deleted> here they like to call wine.

42 minutes ago, Psimbo said:

Fascinating- ANOTHER 'Wine in Thailand' thread. it's almost as if the search function did not exist.

 

Now, there's a pointless post. Same as this one, I suppose.

You can not compare the cost of the wine here in relation to another Contries price as all western currencies are half the value there were 10 years ago. Take Pound Stirling 10 years ago it was 79B/£  now 41B/£ so the price of the wine now costs twice as much to me but the Thai price hasn't increased much.

.The wine l buy now is Mont Clare Thai wine 189B 660cl. If you buy it in larger amount the price/ litre in not in proportion to the 600ml bottle.

Edited May 25, 20197 yr by Percy P
Miss spelt word

Hello, wgdanson, post 23

 

Too bad it does not look like Beaujolais.
Agree for a sangria, but from Spain, go to Brittany where there is Breton sangria with cider and red and black fruits
  and cidria, with cider, peaches, apples, oranges and strawberries.