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[knarf] 25/5/2007 19:40

OW by the way 14 half %

[knarf] 25/5/2007 19:39

When Tescos have Tulum Valley Estate Shiraz San Juan on offer from £8 down to £4 plus 5% discount buy as much as you can carry ,absolutely brilliant,for the money.

[bionicdog] 25/5/2007 19:28

Each to their own I suppose. Personally , I can't stand it and the further you go up the range the worse it gets. I know that Malcolm Gluck agrees with me. Label looks nice though LOL!
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If you want some cheap rubbish from Asda , then the Andrew Peace Mighty Murray range is currently only 3 quid and you can drink it without pulling a face.

[father o toole] 25/5/2007 19:23

not that bad compared to some of the pish out there.

[bionicdog] 25/5/2007 19:17

Yes , but it's bloody horrible.

[joeycooper] 25/5/2007 19:14

Go to ASDA Faustino VII , £20 for 6 bottles.

[knarf] 25/5/2007 18:29

Agree Pete,any one who knows anything about wine knows they continualy reduce wine by a large % after doubling the wine in the 1st place,trading standards should come down heavily on these supermarkets.

[itsourpete] 25/5/2007 17:44

Interesting Website KNARF

I see that Tesco are up to their usual con - implying that wines are reduced when they just hike up the pirces for a while in a 'country' tesco and then 'offer it at half price'!!!! Just take the Darius Tempranillo which is a £3.49 bottle of wine that tastes like a £2.99 bottle of wine - and they say it has been reduced from £6.99 to £3.49!!!! What a con! Where the hell are Trading Standards or the OFT??? Laws need to be revised to stop the Tesco (and others) scam.

Yours moaningly and bitterly

Pete

[ariane] 20/5/2007 14:31

Commission plans campaign to boost wine sector abroad
20 May 2007, 12:20 CET
(BRUSSELS) - European Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel is planning a massive global campaign to promote European wine, hoping to boost a sector suffering from overproduction and New World competition.

"In the project of wine sector reform, which I will present to EU member states on July 4, I will introduce propositions to launch a large-scale promotional campaign," Fischer Boel told AFP in an interview.

This will involve "very significant figures for promotion outside Europe ... people will be very surprised," she added, days ahead of a meeting of European agriculture ministers in Mayence, Germany.

The campaign will help European exports at a time when the world market is increasing steadily, she said.

"EU wine is excellent, top quality (but) I think we can do better on export," she said.

The promotion campaign will be carried out outside of Europe, where a public health campaign, also launched by the Commission, calls for alcohol to be drunk in moderation.

European wines have increasingly seen their market share eroded by competition from cheaper New World wines from countries and regions such as Australia, Chile, California and even China.

Such newcomers have exploded onto world markets in recent years, soaring from 1.7 percent of world exports in the early 1980s to over 20 percent now.

France and Italy are among the biggest European and world producers, with some 45 million hectolitres produced annually each, according to the International Organisation of Vine and Wine.

This is way ahead in production terms of other countries. The US output is less than half that of France and Australia's production is barely 10 million hectolitres.

But the issue is not production capacity, it is securing markets for the wine.

The European Commission believes that deep reform of the sector is needed urgently. Without changes the EU could face lakes of surplus wine akin to butter mountains and other areas of overproduction seen in the past.

Last year Brussels presented plans for substantial reform of the wine sector, aimed at ending the chronic overproduction and decreasing the subsidies paid to viniculturists.

In October the European Commission allocated 450 million euros (567 million dollars) to Europe's struggling wine producers to help them restructure or relocate their vineyards.

This would include uprooting 400,000 hectares of vineyards to tackle the wine glut, 12 percent of the EU total, and distilling some of the 500 million euros worth of surplus wine produced for use as bio-fuel.

Fischer Boel defends the scheme as "a social tool" to help farmers in difficulty "leave with pride, not getting bankrupt."

She also wants to launch promotional campaigns to encourage youngsters to eat more fruit and vegetables, but this time in Europe.

"I'm considering to introduce a scheme... to try to encourage young children to eat more fruit and vegetables because of the importance of avoiding obesity," she said.

"We could give fruits and vegetables away free in schools, in the same way as the school milk scheme."

The scheme would have to be co-financed by the Commission and EU member states and would require substantial sums of money, she said.

The programme will be included in the fruit and vegetable sector reforms which the 27 member states are expected to adopt in mid-June.

The reforms are aimed at making the sector more competitive and to improve crisis management, an increasing necessity as climate change takes hold.

[grupo guitarlumber] 21/3/2007 16:02

Diageo UK BUDGET Wine industry 'very disappointed' at 7 pence rise on sparkling wine


LONDON (AFX) - The wine industry has hit out at the Chancellor's decision to
increase duty on sparkling wine by 7 pence a bottle, widening the gulf once more
between still wine and sparkling wine duties.
Jeremy Beadles, chief executive of the Wine & Spirit Trade Association, said
the trade body is "very disappointed" with the 7 pence increase on sparkling
wine.
"This was already an anomalous tax on the grounds that there is no reason
why sparkling wine should be taxed at a higher rate than still wine," said
Beadles.
He called the increase a "very unpleasant surprise" for the burgeoning
domestic wine industry, for which sparkling wine accounts for 15 pct of output.
"When you are trying to grow a domestic wine market, as they are for English
and Welsh wine, increases of this nature are extremely unhelpful," he said,
added the increase would also negatively impact lower priced sparkling wines,
including Cava and New World offerings.
"They are competing with still wines and they are not being treated in an
equitable way," he said.
Beadles also criticised the decision to put an inflationary 5 pence duty
increase on still wine.
"It's a shame we are still getting these inflationary increases in the wine
market when the market is incredibly tight," he said, highlighting flat light
wine sales growth in 2006.
The Chancellor increased duty on cider by one pence a litre, provoking a
mixed response from the National Association of Cider Makers.
A spokesman for the trade association indicated the duty increase would slow
the growth of cider, but said: "We hope in won't stall or reverse it."
However, he added: "One pleasing thing is that they have broadly preserved
the relationship between beer and cider, which gives [cider makers] a relatively
stable market in which to operate."
The Chancellor increased duty on beer by 1 pence a pint, a move described by
a spokesman for the Beer & Pub Association as a "slap in the face" for the
British brewing industry.
"Gordon Brown has chosen to turn his back on a brewing sector facing intense
pressure from rapid cost inflation and the forthcoming smoking ban," he said.
The BPA had been calling for a freeze in beer duties ahead of this year's
introduction of smoking bans in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, citing
downturns in beer sales in Scotland and Ireland of 6 pct and 7 pct respectively.
The spirits industry welcomed the Chancellor's decision to freeze spirits
duty for the tenth year running.
In an interview with Sky News, Tim Rycroft, government affairs director for
Diageo PLC, the world's leading drinks producer, said the company was
"delighted" with the freeze in spirits duty.
The producer of Johnnie Walker Scotch Whisky and Smirnoff vodka recently
unveiled a 100 mln stg investment in its Scotch whisky business, to include the
construction of brand new distillery in Speyside, as a sign of its confidence in
the potential for growth in premium Scotch.
"In this context, what is good for Scotch is not only good for Scotland, but
for all of the UK," said Rycroft.
Gavin Hewitt, chief executive for the Scotch Whisky Association, also
welcomed the move at a time when the industry is looking to drive sales
internationally, particularly China and other emerging markets in the
Asia-Pacific region.
"Excise duty stability is supporting industry competitiveness in the home
market, as it looks to continue to grow overseas," he said.
Rycroft also said the drinks industry is facing up to its obligations to
tackle binge-drinking in the UK.
"The industry is working with government in a range of different ways not to
do with taxation to promote responsible drinking and to get people to move away
from a binge-drinking culture," he said.
The duty increases come into effect from Monday, March 26.
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[bionicdog] 10/3/2007 18:50

Don't get carried away , it's a four quid wine over here.

[ariane] 10/3/2007 12:02

cheers hagday

[haveagoodday] 10/3/2007 12:01

Ariane;

That Malbec is a delicious wine; described as "a red wine with striking peppery fruit, smoothe and soft in tannin, and pleasant concentration of flavours and aromas.

The French Eurotunnel terminal has had it at half price for ages now at I think, 3.60 Euros a bottle.

The wine is called 'Santa Lucia' Argentina Malbec.

It's an absolute bargain. You'd normally pay anything between £15 - £20 (UK) to get such a quality character wine.

Highly recommended
rgds

[ariane] 02/3/2007 20:57

Malbec
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Malbec is a black, mellow grape variety originally grown in France, in the Loire Valley and Cahors. Long known as one of the six grapes used in the blending of red Bordeaux wine, it is increasingly celebrated as an Argentine varietal wine. It is also grown in the cooler regions of California. It has an extensive listing of synonyms; currently more than fifty.

Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Côt in the Loire and or Pressac in other places, the grape became less popular in Bordeaux after 1956 when frost killed off 75% of the crop. However, Malbec continued to be popular in Cahors where it was mixed with Merlot and Tannat to make dark, full-bodied wines, and more recently has been made into 100% malbec wines there. Despite a similar name, the grape Malbec Argente is not Malbec either but rather the southwestern France grape Abouriou. [1]

Malbec is widely planted in Argentina producing a softer, less-tannic driven variety than the wines of Cahors. The best examples of these wines come from the Argentine region of Mendoza.

Malbec is the premier grape of Argentina. It seems to have found a natural home, being used to produce very popular varietal wines. It is now thought that the variety known as Fer in that country is a clone. As a varietal it creates a rather inky red (or violet), intense wine, so it is also commonly used in blends, such as with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon to create the renowned red French Bordeaux "claret" blend. In California and other areas it is increasingly being used for the same blending purpose.

Introduced to Argentina by French agricultural engineer Michel Pouget in 1868, there were once 50,000 hectares planted with Malbec; now there are 25,000 hectares. Chile, has about 6,000 hectares planted, France 5,300 hectares and California, just 45 hectares. Malbec is also grown in Australia, New Zealand, British Columbia and northeastern Italy.

[isis] 21/2/2007 11:12

Deal of the Day from Tesco's - just in for Chablis Snorters.
Do they think we all just drink allday!

Here is today's Deal of the Day valid until 10am, Thursday 22nd February 2007.
Michel Laroche Chablis Mixed Case
Was £75.00
Then £50.00
Save £37.50 Michel Laroche Chablis Mixed Case
Now £37.50
CASE OF 6 (equivalent to £6.25 per bottle)
Buy it now >
A mixed case of fine Chablis and Premier Cru Chablis from the legendary Michel Laroche.

What our wine expert said...

"A mixed case of Chablis from the most famous name in the region, this case contains two bottles each of Chablis, 2005 and Chablis St Martin, 2004 and one splendid bottle each of Premier Cru Chablis Les Vaudevey, 2004 and Premier Cru Chablis Les Vaillons Vielles Vignes, 2004."

[waldron] 21/2/2007 10:07

i would say so

its reached majority,and therefore you might leave it
to decide on its own behalf.

enjoy anyways.

[bigbigdave] 21/2/2007 10:03

Question is do I open my 1985 Penfolds Grange yet? (Lovingly cellared for 18 years)

[waldron] 21/2/2007 09:56

extract


Penfolds
Penfolds takes its name from an Englishman, Dr Christopher Rawson Penfold, who emigrated to Australia in the 19th Century. Like many of his time, Penfold held a belief in the medicinal qualities of wine, and his baggage included a collection of vine cuttings sourced from the south of France. In 1845 he and his wife, Mary, built a small stone cottage at Magill, near Adelaide, around which he planted his cuttings. This cottage was called...The Grange.

At the time Australian wine was largely fortified, and those produced by the Penfolds did not buck the trend. These fortified wines were principally produced for Penfold's patients, and they were very popular, and before long the vineyards were expanded. After Penfold's death in 1870 Mary continued to manage the vineyards alone, and within a few decades Penfolds was a household name across Australia. When Mary died in 1895, she passed control to daughter Georgina and son-in-law Thomas Hyland. The Penfold Hylands saw their family business rise to dominate the Australian wine industry; at one time one in every two bottles of wine sold bore the Penfolds label

[isis] 21/2/2007 09:32

bionic - yes I have seperated them from the box!
I rarely drink Whites in anycase - the Wife not so fussy, but still prefers reds.
LOL

[bionicdog] 21/2/2007 09:29

The riesling is OK as an aperitif , the semillon chardonnay is a pretty good all rounder with or without food , but you really need to remove the Thomas Hylands and squirrel them away for youself.

[isis] 21/2/2007 09:21

I bought one of the Penfolds mixed cases @£30- (£45) to try out, I'll let you know how I get on. :-))
Such is the quality and the range on the Tesco Wines I've never had a bad bottle of anything from there after four years of using them.
It's bad news for the competition though.