Cheap decent red wine

[Boomer6969]

On 7/27/2021 at 11:02 AM, cjinchiangrai said:

When in Thailand, make sangria. The red wines are poor and overpriced and it is too damn hot. A little sangria over ice on the porch is very nice though.

For intercourse's sake, we don't "drink" wine, we pair it with our food, two or three times a week.

 

We share this with our wives and have sex after..

[Skeptic7]

On 7/27/2021 at 7:52 PM, xylophone said:

Try the "Barwang"

Thx for the recommendation! Had a bottle of the Cabernet Sauvignon Hiltops 2011 (B500) last night. Delightful. Going back for 3 or 4 ASAP. So good...gonna O.D. on it for a while.????

 

[scubascuba3]

4 hours ago, Skeptic7 said:

Thx for the recommendation! Had a bottle of the Cabernet Sauvignon Hiltops 2011 (B500) last night. Delightful. Going back for 3 or 4 ASAP. So good...gonna O.D. on it for a while.????

 

Who sells it?

[Skeptic7]

1 hour ago, scubascuba3 said:

Who sells it?

Got it at Villa Market. 

[roger101]

Things change. Years ago I used to drink Barolo at 15 pounds a bottle. Mind you I always used to share it with my mate. I found that 3 glasses during dinner. was enough.

Now when at home I drink Mont Clair cut 50/50 with soda. It tastes enough like a wine to keep me happy and I can drink 5 or 6 glasses without a problem.

Mind you when I'm out I tend to drink whatever house wine is on offer. If I'm out of Pattaya I take some bottles of decent wine with me. Most places don't charge corkage if they don't sell wine

Going back even further I used to buy house wine in France to bring back at 50 pence a litre. Served ice cold it was drinkable but it had to be iced cold otherwise it was cr-p.

[Skeptic7]

On 8/26/2021 at 4:42 PM, scubascuba3 said:

Who sells it?

Unfortunately, I can't find Barwang Hilltops anywhere now...only The Wall. 

[2009]

On 7/26/2021 at 2:33 PM, clivebaxter said:

Rumours is a cheap Ozzie one 299 baht last time in Big C, then there is Hola, 219 you can just about call it wine. Wolf Blass at 399 is quite good 14% Shiraz

Are these fruit wines?

[clivebaxter]

11 minutes ago, 2009 said:

Are these fruit wines?

Wolf blass is not the others are

[Farangdk]

I would recommend Mouton Cadet for around 900. 

 

[Puccini]

4 hours ago, Farangdk said:

I would recommend Mouton Cadet for around 900. 

 

Where do you buy it? For that brand, the price looks good.

[Farangdk]

1 hour ago, Puccini said:

Where do you buy it? For that brand, the price looks good.

My wife buy it at Foodland. When I buy wine myself, I always buy Amarone.

[opalred]

I drink the cheep ozzie one/ match's the color of my ozzie  nose

[topt]

On 9/5/2021 at 10:24 AM, Farangdk said:

I would recommend Mouton Cadet for around 900. 

 

23 hours ago, Farangdk said:

When I buy wine myself, I always buy Amarone.

And how often is that and also at Foodland? 

Big difference between those 2 not just in style but price as well

[Farangdk]

16 hours ago, topt said:

 

And how often is that and also at Foodland? 

Big difference between those 2 not just in style but price as well

Wife and I drink wine once every week to our dinner. Amarone I buy several places. Among the places I buy is Villa Marked, Foodland. Correct, little difference in price.

 

[scubascuba3]

I had a look in Tesco Lotus North Pattaya Road today, a really poor selection of wines, don't waste your time going there, Big C Extra has a much bigger selection

[AsiaTraveler1234]

I can't find good cheap wine in Thailand. I can tolerate a wine called Hope's End Red Blend that I buy at Food Mart for around THB 550 for a 750ml bottle. It's not good, but it beats everything else I have tried in the under THB 600 (USD $18) price point.

 

I had no problem at all in Australia or the States finding good cheap wine. One of my favorite cheap wines back home is USD $10 but here that same bottle is THB 999 (USD $30).

[brianthainess]

On 7/27/2021 at 10:21 AM, nickmondo said:

i drink this one all the time when i am at my place in Spain.

Only costs 120 baht there though..........

I know they have to pay taxes, import costs etc.........but prices ridiculous here

Is that you Bob......

[still kicking]

On 7/26/2021 at 3:33 PM, clivebaxter said:

Rumours is a cheap Ozzie one 299 baht last time in Big C, then there is Hola, 219 you can just about call it wine. Wolf Blass at 399 is quite good 14% Shiraz

Decent Aussie red at Tops 399 baht can't remember the name.

[KannikaP]

2 litres of Red (or White) Grape concentrate = Bht 810 from Nuboon on Lazada. 6litres of water, 1/2 pack of Yeast, 300 gm sugar. My hydrometer says 15%. Leave for 1 week, decant into another glass container, leave two more weeks minimum. Final cost about Bht 105 PER LITRE.

[MarkBR]

On 7/27/2021 at 12:36 PM, HarrySeaman said:

I love a glass of wine with dinner or before bed while soaking in my Jacuzzi (Don't get excited, I wouldn't have it if it hadn't been there when I rented the house, it is outdoors in a courtyard, and it is unheated so only useful about 6 months of the year.) 

I gave up on boxed wines as a bad idea after trying a number of them.

Next I gave up on bottled "fruit wines", i.e. wines diluted with fruit juices.

I couldn't afford the cost of good wine every day in Thailand so I just buy a good bottle of red and another of white once a month.  I trade quality for quantity.

 

As a side note, wine and other spirits are affordable in Cambodia.  Since there is no import duty sometimes the cost is less than in the country where they were bottled.  A drinkable table wine can be had for $4 or less.  You can legally bring back a bottle of alcohol to Thailand without paying duty so, before COVID-19, I usually brought back a bottle of an expensive spirit that cost about 1/3 of the Thai price.  That plus savings on medications, that are significantly lower than I pay at Thai pharmacies, would pay a good part of the travel costs.

Useful info, will buy good alcohol when next coming back into Thailand.

[cjinchiangrai]

Waiting for the tariffs to be pulled.

 

Thailand will never be a place to get really good wine at fair prices but if they lose the tariffs we will be able to get a lot of drinkable juice from Australia, South America and California. Probably Italy and Spain too. The shippers will need to be big enough to offer full containers at first.

 

It will take a few years to sort the French stuff because they will be dumping the plonk on the rubes. I saw this first hand in Mexico and China. Some great bargains though like Chateau LaFite gran Cru du Bordeaux for 800 baht a bottle. Never had the guts to pull the trigger. 😬

 

Hopefully it will motivate the locals but they are growing the wrong grapes. There are a few drinkable wines made locally but they are sheltered by crazy tariffs and the quality is not there yet. They need to take a page from Banyon Tree in India, where they recruited a bunch of students from the wine university in Barcelona and let them make the wine. It worked, the best wine in India.