Wine - Bulk Buying

nydryl · 24 Oct 2011 at 16:02

I have £100 to spend on a cheese and wine night. A minimal amount will be spent on beer, an even smaller amount on a packet of cheese slices, and around £75 on wine. My question to the drinkers, drunkards and degenerates of OcUK is where is the cheapest place to get reasonably drinkable wine.

Bear in mind I'm in Scotland so multibuy has flown the coop.

Ahleckz · 24 Oct 2011 at 16:13

Virginwines, Laithwaites and the like always have introductory offers for new members. It'll be worth checking them out.
Also, Tesco wine dispatch from England (or at least that was what they intended to do to get around the new legislation) so can still offer multibuy deals.
Alternatively, befrined someone (me) who gets 10% off at ASDA and invite them to come for free wine...

Belmit · 24 Oct 2011 at 16:33

nydryl said:
cheese and wine night... cheese slices

Wha?

I almost always use Virgin Wines. Haven't bought a mixed case in a while but they currently have an offer on red, white or mixed bin end cases for £60. Will get you three or four decent-ish wines in a case of 12.

With the £15 you've just saved on the wine, please buy some good cheese.

Liquid_Entity · 24 Oct 2011 at 16:41

Do Quidco offer any more incentive too ?

J1234 · 24 Oct 2011 at 16:44

I use BBR to buy my wine online in bulk. However if you are looking for cheap stuff, then one of those places that always have silly money off vouchers will do, Virgin Wines and another one whose name escapes me at the moment seem to be popular.

Cheese slices?

Edit - Naked Wines is who I was thinking of.

nydryl · 24 Oct 2011 at 16:45

I love my cheese but nobody would thank me for spending any real amount of money on it. It's a cheese and wine night in name only with the cheese slices being a ceremonial nod to the night's origins

A few bowls of crisps and as much alcohol as possible is the order of the day. Cheers for the suggestions I'll go and have a look around. Getting Tesco to deliver from England is looking like a decent option for the cheapness.

TechFunctions · 24 Oct 2011 at 17:23

Tend to use Virgin Wines they are pretty good

tom_nieto · 24 Oct 2011 at 18:15

BBR is good if you know what you want. Free delivery too. I would deffo get an introductory offer from virgin of similar for this purpose.

233 · 24 Oct 2011 at 18:16

Ahleckz said:
Virginwines, Laithwaites and the like always have introductory offers for new members. It'll be worth checking them out.
Also, Tesco wine dispatch from England (or at least that was what they intended to do to get around the new legislation) so can still offer multibuy deals.
Alternatively, befrined someone (me) who gets 10% off at ASDA and invite them to come for free wine...

you kept that quiet.

when you coming round for a bbq

DirtyJester · 24 Oct 2011 at 21:16

I'll see your Asda friend and raise you a 'other half' who gets 20% off M&S

oh and that also includes buy 11 and GOF

Jimbeam3678 · 24 Oct 2011 at 21:40

Another vote for Virgin. I use them pretty regular. Get some cracking offers from them. Might be worth looking at their wine auctions

Ahleckz · 24 Oct 2011 at 22:37

Foxtrot26 said:
you kept that quiet.

when you coming round for a bbq

I'm a home shopping driver for them, it's hardly career move of the century. I love the idea of a winter BBQ, few bottles of tonic, some frosty and some dangerously undercooked chicken? We're real men.

Martynt74 · 25 Oct 2011 at 09:36

I think Tesco might still be doing their buy 6 bottles and get 25% deal aswell at the moment

Ahleckz · 25 Oct 2011 at 09:46

Marvt74 said:
I think Tesco might still be doing their buy 6 bottles and get 25% deal aswell at the moment

They won't be, that's illegal in Scotland.

Martynt74 · 25 Oct 2011 at 10:03

Oh right, thats unfortunate!

TheDean · 25 Oct 2011 at 11:05

Majestic for £5-8 a bottle. No point bothering with BBR with a £70ish budget imo

nydryl · 25 Oct 2011 at 11:25

£5-£8 is unfortunately way out of budget. We wouldn't even get tipsy at that price.

Perhaps the better question would be to ask what is the very very cheapest wine available on somewhere like Tesco Wines (as it seems to have the cheapest, or worst?) that is passable? You get crazy deals on stuff like Isla Negra at the moment but I wouldn't have a clue if it's even remotely drinkable.

Ahleckz · 25 Oct 2011 at 12:02

If it's just to get smashed on, then you might be best looking at boxes of wine from a supermarket. Might work out cheaper. A random selection from Lidl/Aldi might also be cheap.

If you're looking for £3 bottles of wine, then you'll get something that tastes like it's £3...

TheDean · 25 Oct 2011 at 12:03

Well if you spend a max of £4 a bottle, that'll give you 18 bottles. There is no point having the night if you're spending less than that, as it'll just be horrible. Just buy white lightning if you all want to get drunk

nydryl · 25 Oct 2011 at 12:14

It's a poor situation to be honest, grossly underfunded with expectations of plenty drinkable wine. Somethings got to give and I won't please everyone.

Might go for stuff like this?

http://www.tesco.com/wine/product/details/default.aspx?id=256267770

24 bottles for just over £70 after a £10 voucher and delivery. I realise the discount is probably exaggerated but at least it might taste slightly better than a bottle that was £3 to begin with.

As for the boxes of wine idea, I considered that but I'd probably get lynched by lecturers if I tried it.

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