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you still can't beat the gallon of nasty, nasty cheap Spanish wine I had last night though......mind you, it was gratis, on the guv'nor!!
 
I'm drinking a bottle of £2.99 red wine from Tesco as I type. My mother 'kindly' bought me a bottle and I made the mistake of telling her it wasn't too bad (which as most £2.99 bottles go it probably isn't-but its still pretty bad). Now she keeps buying it for me..... :rolleyes:
 
I'm sure I could find something to cook up which will require large quantities of not fit for drinking wine. And of course there's also mulled wine which someone on here kindly gave me the recipe for after my last brush with some extremely dodgy red stuff. At the moment though, and slightly worringly, I'm actually drinking my second glass, Canti Rosso its called if anyone out there is both desperate and skint.
 
How about suggesting to your Mum that you are cutting back and therefore perhaps she would like to buy you half as many bottles but at £5.99
 
I'll have to do something. I don't think she'd believe the cutting back line though, she knows me too well! Not drinking for the last week due to some 'definitely don't mix with alcohol antibiotics' has been a real struggle.
 
How about "it was so lovely that I drank far too much of it and was so sick I don't think I can ever look at it again"???
 
Hmmm I like that one too..... 'I can't ever drink it again, even the smell of it makes me feel sick. Although such and such is rather nice, its not much dearer, only £7 a bottle.'
 
You could lie like a bandit and tell her that the antibiotics are because you broke out in a terrible, itchy rash shortly after drinking the Rosso. Your doctor has warned you that it contains phenylchlorofluorodioxymethylenes (it's okay, I made it up!) which (HE says) are often put into the cheaper red wines to prevent premature oxidization. You may need to be very sober if you try this explanation, but it should work! ;) But, of course, a nice Chateau Kirwan won't contain any such unpleasantries...
 
It's shocking - she fills all these bottles of Blossom Hill up with Chateau Kirwan and thinks nobody will notice as she pretends to be drinking plonk .
 
I can recommend strongly this week a wine from the Loire .

It is unusually a Loire red Saumur Les Nivieres 2003 at £4.99 from Waitrose.

These reds are great for summer drinking after half an hour in the fridge . Very blackcurranty and delicious .

Loire reds can be a bit too light but as 2003 was a very hot year they have more body than normal . 2003 Loire whites on the other hand taste a bit overcooked .
 
Do you get these wine updates e-mailed to you by Waitrose, Ardross, in the same way I receive them from Sainsbury's?
 
I've been in the pub tonight drinking a special wine called "Aftershock".

I feel a bit spinny-headed....
 
No Aunty K . I bought it as such wines are rarely seen in supermarkets . It is from the highly rated co-op in Saumur and I thoughtI would give it a try .

If the recommendations come from someone else like Dame Jancis I put up the source.
 
Purr will now be trying a comparative tasting of Hi Karate , Mandate , Old Spice and Brut 33
 
No she's at Merlin's silly.

If she feels like really slumming it she is coming round to Crumbly Towers for some Blossom Hill :P
 
:lol: :lol: !!!!!!!!! AT LAST !!!! :lol: !!! SOMETHING I DO BELIEVE!!!!!! :D :) :lol: ;)

Oi, stop those sly afterthoughts, you li'l rascal. No, no, the Blossom Hill's ALL yours, dearie. HOW many times must I tell you? I've got some Lime Face Tonic for Purr lined up... over ice, of course.
 
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