Carrefour has a wine festival until the end of May. There’s some good baragains I think.
Does anyone have any recommendations? I’m nto sure what to buy.
Link:
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I might head over tomorrow to check out some of the cheap Bordeaux. If I come up with anything good I’ll post
I think I ended up buying eight bottles today. I’m not sure, as I kept changing my mind. Itw as very hard to whittle down my shortlist of 20-something picks.
I swung once and struck out.
Ok, what sucked?
chateau la jolie bergerac
Avoid el Pitt and la Jolie. 
My favorite wine that I’ve bought in awhile was the Ochagavia Red for 250-300NT at Carrefour. I think that sale is over though.
I’ve had several on the list but I don’t keep a database. I pretty much only drink reds but I couldn’t tell you if I had Merlot (usually), Shiraz, Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon) though. I’m also not a wine expert and I’m not very discriminating.
Yellow Tail - Excellent (edit - this was actually Alice White - still excellent)
Obikwa - very good for a <200NT (before sale) wine
Bay Bridge - also very good and on sale at 188
Miraflores and Jacob’s Creek- don’t remember. must have been decent.
G7 - did not like this one. neither did my ex gf.
Casillero del Diablo - I remember drinking this in Peru/Ecuador and liking it but it’s still too expensive on the sale price. I would rather buy two bottles of something else.
I usually pick up a 185NT bottle of French Maid red wine at Costco. Pretty good value imo.
Slightly OT, but they’ve got a modest selection of Belgian beers too, including some good ones, and some at buy-several-bottles prices. Not sure if that’s normal or not?
I’ve noticed them offering specials on my favourite, Duvel. Recently, they had it at 50NTD. Well worth it at 8% or so of a beer that actually has flavour :lick:
I took a look. I don’t drink wine anymore really, but from what I saw at Carrefour, their sale prices, compared to the MUCH better wine available at RT Mart, simply did not compete.
What do you recommend from RT Mart then Sandy? I think RT Mart is good for wine, they have more cheap sparkling wine for example, but I don’t really see them being better than Carrefour on price or range overall. I think the two places have much the same sort of thing for much the same price. Maybe RT has mroe French and CF more South American. I mean if there are examples of RT Mart’s better wines or better prices, I’d love to try them.
I got about ten bottles at the Carrefour Wine Festival, but have only drunk one so far. Unfortunately it was a not bad, but not particularly interesting Chianti. Light and fruity, but that’s not really my thing.