Advantages: Reasonably priced, goes with most food Disadvantages: Paying for it! LOL!
...turn of another of my Tesco favourites – their own brand wines are in fact very good. French Medium Dry White Wine (Vin de Table de France) is another regular drinking buddy of mine. It doesn’t sound very glamorous, and indeed the box (I buy the 3 litre boxes!) doesn’t look very glamorous either – chiefly white with some tacky sketchy drawings of wine and food on it! But the liquid hiding inside is very, very drinkable indeed!
This one is billed ... ...can’t better that description, just expand on it a little. On the dryness scale (graded 1(driest)-9(sweetest)) it is a 3 which means it just borders on being sweet but still has the feeling of a dry wine in the mouth. It has an alcohol content of 10.5% volume which is average for a wine of this range. A 3 litre box will cost around £11, I think it is also available in standard 75cl bottles for around £4 from Tesco. This is one my my regular purchases ...
blurbubble 29.12.2001
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Advantages: Be good for the painting and decorating trade Disadvantages: Be good for the painting and decorating trade.
...I took my daughter to Tesco with me to help choose a selection of suitable alcofrolic beverages.
Having chosen the usual Chardonay (Jacobs Creek, £4.99) and some Chianti Classico (about the same price)and put a couple of bottles of each in the trolley, I was concerned that that would not suffice, even though there were the usual alcopops to top up with.
My daughter then hit upon the idea of a box of wine. It would ensure that everyone had some ... ...population though). Unfortunately, the Tesco Box certainly didn't do it for me.
My daughters by contrast felt the wine was ok - cheap and drinkable, so I gave the rest to them to finish off. I know that I should probably have made sure that it was icy cold, but even at slightly above the optimum temperature, it should have tasted nice. This was not the case with this wine though.
For those who might try it here are the details:
French Medium Dry ...
orlando 16.04.2003
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