the most you would pay for a bottle of wine

Probably go up to £30 for a present. For myself, no more than £10, generally go for something around the £7 mark.

Historically, £15

Likewise I'd probably go up to about £30 for a present. Above that price = someone I like too much to just get them a bottle of wine.

Probably £30 at the moment, if it was really good, but that's a lot more than i typically spend.

I normally don't spend more than $20, but will bump it to around $50 for NYE champagne.

i've come closer than i'd like to admit to pulling the trigger on bottles around $150.

Man I must be cheap because maybe on a special occasion if my sisX0r comes to visit I'd get a £15 or £20 bottle of wine.

But, for the most part - yeah, a £15 bottle of wine does taste twice as good as a £7 one! But a £30 bottle of wine does not taste twice as good as a £15 and there are sharp diminishing returns.

(If someone points out that this is contradictory to my attitude towards whisky, well. So yeah.)

$25 would be my max, and I'm more likely to cap out around $10-15. I'm not a big wine drinker and don't have much of a palate and Branwell is OTM re: diminishing returns.

(and if someone points out that this is contradictory to my attitude towards beer, bite me.)

My answer is skewed by my going to Trader Joe's wine store where a $15 bottle of wine somewhere else is $9 or 10 there. But my ans is still $12.

i'm with carl agatha. i rarely pay more than $12 for a bottle of wine, but a few days ago i bought a 12 oz bottle of beer that cost about that much.

I'll probably shell out for a Grand Cru once before I die, and I'll drink it all in an evening

have spent £30 as gift before

wouldn't spend anything for myself

£10 for myself, and that would be a treat.

if i were to spend over £30 it would be on a spirit or liqueur

for myself, probably $12.50. i'm not a big wine drinker though

as a gift, maybe more like $20 or so

The further you go up the scale of excellence in wine, the more you pay for each marginal increment of improvement, so that, while a $10 bottle may well be twice as enjoyable as a $5 bottle, a $100 bottle may be only 10% more enjoyable than a $50 bottle. Once I sussed this out I decided that $20 is about as high as I'll ever go, and then only for very special occasions.

i'll pay more for a bottle of whiskey, since it's more stable and can hang out in my liquor cabinet for a long time without ever really going bad, and one drink of whiskey takes less from the bottle than a glass of wine. though i max out at around $45 w/ whiskey. you can get a lot of good whiskies in the $25-$40 range.

$25

I'll happily drop £40 on a decent single malt.

yeah different thread tbf tho

about $15

£20, but it would have to be a REALLY big bottle of thunderbird

$16 but I've spent $25 for special dinners or going to friends' houses for dinner. With wine the most expensive bottle isn't necessarily the best; you just gotta do a little research.

The most I have ever spent on one bottle was £ 60 for a Chateauneuf du Pape, for a special occasion. And I'd do that again for a special occasion, so that? Usually it's 7-10 though.

£15 / /$25 - i think, and generally as a gift being brought to a dinner. i don't really drink wine recreationally. re beer, the most i've ever spent on a bottle is $30 which seems like way too much to me at this moment..

there was an xls somewhere of the price list of a wine merchant from the 1950s and the prices for blue nun and 2eme grand cru bordeaux were both around £20 adjusted for inflation

what beer did you spend $30 on?

Wonder what ilx would do if I liveblogged buying a grand cru and mixing it with coke

think I've broken £20 before but idk

£30 is probably my answer if I'm in a particularly good mood with my best friend. again though, if there was a £25 option I'd go for that. nakh yer cruel

grand diesel is some awesome klf shit

st emilion grand crus widely available for less than $25

rly i shd find the most reputable vintner in porto rotondo and get absolutely fucking slaughtered in order to test this thread out. it'd have to be tomorrow night. i don't rly feel like getting absolutely fucking slaughtered tbf

Equivalent thread for 330ml bottle of beer would be interesting

i seem to still not have graduated beyond the quantity > quality strata of dinner party vinophilia, 2x the usual cornershop turps is gratefully received

since you can probably buy good sicilian wine there cheaper or perhaps far cheaper than in the uk then that isnt a bad idea

$12.50. Good Malbecs are pretty cheap hereabouts.

*sardinian*

Spent $100 on a bottle at Daniel Boulud's restaurant in Vegas but I'd gone ham on the craps table leading up to dinner.

Locally, $15-25 depending on mood.

what beer did you spend $30 on?

a goose island sour barrel-aged

$50 but never at a restaurant. I always buy the cheapest wine at a restaurant because that shit is ridiculous.

Throughout my life I have averaged the 7-9 quid standard apart the odd £30 indulgence. Have had £100 + bottles before in the company of my older brother who has more money than sense, saying that an £80 rioja he once bought was probably the best wine I have ever tasted in my life. My current standards are very low, this week I bought 5 1l cartons of tesco Spanish red (£4.60 per carton) and all I can say is that it looks like wine and is probably as nice as what the Roman centurions drank but tbh I still enjoy it.

£15 maximum, like for someone's wedding or something or a gift. I ain't made o' money!

Generally spend £5ish on a bottle. Since moving from the Midlands (England) to South East, have to pay £6-£7 a bit more often.

$7.99 "Our Daily Red" is pretty good, y'all.

£10 at the most, usually around 5-7.50, though. less if its just for me, i can't discern wine quality unless it's really bad.

$20 is my limit - but I usually hover around the $10 to $15 sweet spot.

I bought a $50 bottle, and a $75 bottle at a couple of really lovely wineries a few years ago -- but that was on a fancy work trip with comped spending money. If it had been my own dough, no way jose.

idk what i'd pay for a bottle these days but i pay abt $20 for a box

I will blanch at paying out more than £10 for a bottle of dry wine but regularly pay over that for a half bottle of a dessert wine. Seemed to make sense at the time.

dessert wine is usually cheap, no?

$10 because i honestly dont give a shit about wine

I don't know. I see lots of half-bottles around £6/7. No doubt there is cheaper stuff available. xp.

xp bet you give a shit about a barley wine

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I'm sure I've told this before but at our hotel in Panama, on a wet day, we let them give us the lecture on timeshare for $200 of hotel credit. We splurged $100 one night on a 'premium' bottle of wine (i.e. not the all-inclusive stuff, which was perfectly drinkable) and discovered it was the sort of thing you'd pay about $10 for in the UK. The American sommelier made such a fuss about decanting it and hanging round the table telling us about it it was embarassing; I think "do you know how to drink barolo?" was the low point.

To answer the real question, I'm struggling to choose between £7.50 and £10 but like Ned Trifle will regularly spend a lot more on half bottles of dessert wine.

I was in Greece a couple of weeks ago and literally the only wine for sale in the entire town was a tetrapak of red wine for 1 euro 70. It wasn't that bad!

have more than once spent in the neighborhood of $100 on a bottle, but you know, the clinton years. i don't drink these days, but were i fully flush and backsliding, i might again. neither seems likely any time soon.

$12-20 for everyday, up to $50 for special occasions. I once spent $130 on a bottle of Champagne, Pol Roger Cuvee Winston Churchill '94 I think it was, and learned that either that style is not for me, or my palate is not so sophisticated that I can tell the difference between a $75 bottle of Champagne and $130.

These go for around $40, are released a decade or so after their bottle, and are worth it if you're splurging on an experience.

there are various spanish sites who will deliver to elsewhere in europe (complicated legal situation re duty exemption in the uk), where you will pay not more than about £11 for tondonia crianza at the right time of year

though i would certainly not recommend their white, and possibly even their red wines to someone who doesn't drink a lot of wine, partial oxidation via extremely long aging in cask is not what most people would consider obviously desireable

Equivalent thread for 330ml bottle of beer would be interesting

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Or a thread about how long you'd be willing to wait in line for a special release.

£145

It's a happy Sunday and winemaker Adrian Carsini is at his vineyard with four fellow wine connoisseurs. Leaving the room under the guise of getting a new bottle of wine that is breathing in his office, he listens in on the intercom as his tasters discuss and agree making Adrian the wine industry's Man of the Year.

I chose £10, but really I would spend up to $20.

I've compared a $40 bottle of wine with one I paid a few hundred dollars on. The expensive one tasted awful and the expensive ones that do taste okay, I can't even tell the difference between it and a $20 dollar bottle.

So, yeah, £10

For our families at our wedding I bought 2x3L of Perrier Jouet for $250 each, prorated for 750ml = $62.50/ ~47€

I may have spent more than that on a single bottle of wine at retail a couple times, but I can't remember specifics.

The most expensive wine I've ever tasted was a 1961 Chateau Pape Clement grand cru classe bordeaux which a friend shared with us over dinner a couple years ago, retail on that bottle is $500+, I would imagine you'd see it on a fancy wine list for several thousand dollars.

Spirits: A friend of mine owns a restaurant and got a promotional bottle of Nolet's Reserve Gin and popped it open one night when he was bored and had the bartender pour us two chilled shots. I had no idea what it was but I remarked that it tasted "pretty good!" My friend then told me the bottle retails for $750 and the sales rep recommended selling shots for $150/per! It was good but either I'm not a gin person or that's a tremendous waste of money (most likely both).

As others have stated, don't get me started on beer.

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i don't usually go above $20 but i have dabbled in the $30-40 range at wine bars when splitting with others. tbh i tend to go for cheap bottles that i can finish in an evening, and save my dough for quality liquor.

Bronze age Canaanite wine cellar discovered in Israel last year.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0106406
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High arsenic levels in cheap wine
List of wines cited in lawsuit as having high arsenic levels

recently broke £30 for a dinner party gift, regretted it at the time, but last night the host's son visited me & informed me that his mum had gone on at length after I left about how my wine had stolen the show, now feel much better about buying that wine

keep the meme dead: pippa's arsenic

what did u buy xp

shit, it's gone. began with a p, french, about ten letters

lol

hopefully a pomerol, or a pommard

it was great

I will record my wines more assiduously henceforth

Pomerol rings a bell! Yeah I think it was that

i'll pay more for a bottle of whiskey, since it's more stable and can hang out in my liquor cabinet for a long time without ever really going bad, and one drink of whiskey takes less from the bottle than a glass of wine. though i max out at around $45 w/ whiskey. you can get a lot of good whiskies in the $25-$40 range.

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dropped 40 euro on a barolo or a valpolicella or s/t lately again obv I just asked at the counter for a good italian red it was for someone else

A bottle of £4.37 wine has been named the best in the world

About 10 years ago or more their used to be a lovely Rioja you could get for £3.29 at Asda that put many £10+ bottles to shame. Even Malcom Gluck raved about it in the Graun iirc.

Best in show in the best single-varietal red under £15.

I feel like the $15-18 range is the sweet spot where it's pretty unlikley I'll get something *bad* if I'm buying from a decent store and have some idea what kind of thing I want. I have go-to wines in the $10-12 range but it gets riskier there.

i don't drink but it's heartening to know that good wines under 15 are plentiful

Gik blue wine comes to the UK from Spain

The producers suggest pairing the wine with sushi, nachos with guacamole or pasta carbonara with music from James Blake or Alt J in the background

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Drinking wine with my boy Rob before Alt-J

I can't remember which £4.37 La Moneda Reserva Malbec won the big wine award but I got a few bottles of their pinot noir and a few of their merlot in this week. So far the merlot is decent - good enough for any low level bon vivant!

The wankers have upped the La Moneda Reserva Malbecit range to £5.75 a bottle now, hope they fucking die.