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BS.Dos.
Joined: 29 Mar 2007
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 Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:36 am Post subject: Global Economic Meltdown Purchase Of The Week. |
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Villamontes Chardonnay. Chilean central valley.
Yours for 6,000W a bottle courtesy of Tescos/HomePlus. Obviously, being a promotion and being as we're in Korea, you'll find it down the coffee aisle as I did. |
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nate2008
Joined: 10 Apr 2008
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Wow nice, I was hoping to head to HomePlus this weekend, I'll have to see if I can find some! |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Umm, so is that a good price? And is it a nice wine? I don't drink white myself, but I use it for cooking. If it's decent, I'll grab a few bottles. |
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Jeff's Cigarettes
Joined: 27 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, it's a very decent wine in the under 10,000 category. Personally, I prefer wines in the 40,000 + range but, to each his own. |
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D.D.
Joined: 29 May 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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e-mart Grant Burge cab sav or chardonnay for 9900. Wolf Blass cab sav for 10900. Both good Austrarian wines that are not marked up too much.
I don't get the mark ups here. Some ones are marked up so much over the domestic Aussie prices and other are not? |
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espoir
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Incheon, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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I have never had a good Chilean wine. Sorry but Chilean wine I have always considered to be bottle of the barrel stuff.
I just wish that they had good Australian wine here. Like for some reason they seem to consider Lindermans a purely vintage wine. I'm sorry but where I come from Lindermans is always the 12$ bottle wine, right up there with yellowtail. I prefer Wolf Blass, but there reservesonly, not the regular red/yellow label stuff unless I feel like a cheap bottle of wine one night.
But one of the best chardonnays I ever had was Yara Burns, an Australian wine. But thats the 50,000 won range, but more than worth it imho. |
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BS.Dos.
Joined: 29 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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| espoir wrote: |
I have never had a good Chilean wine. Sorry but Chilean wine I have always considered to be bottle of the barrel stuff.
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Not sure how anyone who claims to appreciate a glass of wine can be so wholesale and dismissive about Chilean wines categorically. I met another FT out here who said pretty much the same thing. I couldn't understand it. Although, he was from California, so maybe there was an element of bias.
Back home, all new world wines are very popular, more so than old world of late. Both the red and white South American varieties do really well and generally get very positive reviews. especially those from Chile.
Just to reiterate, for 6,000, the Villamontes was okay. |
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D.D.
Joined: 29 May 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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| espoir wrote: |
I have never had a good Chilean wine. Sorry but Chilean wine I have always considered to be bottle of the barrel stuff.
I just wish that they had good Australian wine here. Like for some reason they seem to consider Lindermans a purely vintage wine. I'm sorry but where I come from Lindermans is always the 12$ bottle wine, right up there with yellowtail. I prefer Wolf Blass, but there reservesonly, not the regular red/yellow label stuff unless I feel like a cheap bottle of wine one night.
But one of the best chardonnays I ever had was Yara Burns, an Australian wine. But thats the 50,000 won range, but more than worth it imho. |
I want a bottle of Cullen chard or Cape Mentelle cab sav- some of the things I miss about Aus. |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 8:10 am Post subject: |
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| BS.Dos. wrote: |
| espoir wrote: |
I have never had a good Chilean wine. Sorry but Chilean wine I have always considered to be bottle of the barrel stuff.
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Not sure how anyone who claims to appreciate a glass of wine can be so wholesale and dismissive about Chilean wines categorically. |
Indeed. But you didn't pick him up on saying "bottle of the barrel". Don't be so kind next time. Beat him relentlessly over the head with it as if it were a blunt object and you were Colonel Mustard in a particurlarly vicious game of Cluedo. One in which the bottle of port before the dinner party was corked and you were driven into a fiery rage that could not be quenched without french-"espoir" blood on the floor.
Punish him for his irritatingly insolent ignorant utterances. There are some fine Chilean wines out there. |
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