Britain’s best value Christmas booze revealed as £3.49 bottle of supermarket red wine – but you’ll need to be quick
A CUT-price Aldi red wine — slashed to just £3.49 a bottle — has been hailed by experts as Britain’s best value booze for Christmas.
Vino lovers are expected to flock to the budget chain’s stores on December 11 when the top tipple is trimmed to less than half its regular £8.99.
Jane MacQuitty, wine critic at The Times, described the bargain 2021 Specially Selected French Cairanne red, right, as a “festive gift to the nation” and “the bottle to buy”.
She said: “Savvy shoppers have always raced to Aldi for their weekly winter £3.49 specials, but of the dozen popping up this month and next, its tasty 2021 Specially Selected French Cairanne, a skilful blend of 60 per cent grenache, 25 per scent syrah, 10 per cent mourvedre and 5 per cent carignan, is the bottle to buy.
“Recommended in my Summer Top 100 at its full £8.99 price, a few months of extra age have seen this Cairanne's silky tannins and warm thyme and pine sunny hillside scents and tastes develop into a more mature, excellent, earthy, cracked black pepper southern Rhône."
With alcohol duty at £2.67 a bottle — and with VAT on top — it is likely to be a loss leader for Aldi, experts say, offered to tempt in shoppers.
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The special low price is for one week only.
The average bottle of red in the UK costs around £7.41, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Meanwhile, rival budget supermarket Lidl reckons its £14.99 Montaudon Champagne Brut beat a £43 Moët & Chandon Imperial Brut in a UK-wide bubbly blind taste test.
In an attempt to nab our big festive shop, Waitrose also has 11 fine wines knocked down to a tenner and Asda has chopped £10 off a majestic single-quinta vintage port.
