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.

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.

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.

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.

nydryl · 25 Oct 2011 at 12:23

Marvt74 said:
How many people are going to this? Do you need 24 bottles?

Aldi usually do some pretty good stuff for between £4 and £5 i find which would give around 18 bottles

I'd say around 40 but that's a very rough guess. Is Aldi wine quite nice? I used to buy it a few years ago but can't really remember what it was like. I suppose 18 drinkable bottles would be better than 24 crap ones, can always hit the pub an hour earlier.

Biere Speciale is getting supplied as the alternative to wine.

nydryl · 25 Oct 2011 at 12:27

QuickLink said:
I was going to suggest Saxtys but you just mentioned that as a budget for a bottle and yea, good luck.

I need it, do not like budget cuts

nydryl · 25 Oct 2011 at 12:40

Budget is set by department, people won't pay, everyone gets invited. What I have to work with won't change. I'm going to get 24 bottles of that reduced stuff from tesco, 40 biere speciales from tesco and some crisps. People can go whistle if they aren't happy.