Wine!

If you like Sauvignon Blanc One I have recently enjoyed is Mud House Sauvignon Blanc from Waitrose £8.99 a bottle, although sometimes on offer. It's from New Zealand and has a really fresh, crisp taste.

David

I'll look out for the Savignon Blanc, David.

Regards

David 

Not much much of a response may be everyone is teetotal?

If you are interested in wine I would suggest joining the 

The Wine Society

Yes it costs money to join, but you can leave your membership in your will

The choice of wines is huge from about £5 upwards

A bit older than the caravanclub. 

Above all I have the quality of their customer service simply outstanding.  3 examples

1.  I cocked up my credit card number, wine delivered got an email asking if I minded when I had a moment giving them a payment. 

2 Delivery driver, they have their own was concerned that a case he had delivered was correctly packed, he insisted I opened it to check. He was right all the bottles were upside down

3.  Had a bad bottle rang up to complain, not a problem they have a no quibble guarantee, but checked my history and saw that I had ordered an identical bottle did I want that replaced foc as well?  Not really, We had just drunk the first one and it was fine. 

Lots of organisations could learn from and aspire to their level of customer service. 

Out of interest has anyone experienced a bad wine with a screw cap closure? I don't mean a wine they didn't like, but one that was off. I haven't. I am reluctant to buy wines with the traditional cork closure now because of a couple of bad experiences with (to me) expensive wines. Waitrose always refund or exchange if you have a problem with a bottle that turns out to be not so good. I expect other retailers do as well but no personal experience.

David

Yes I have at a restaurant, same story first bottle very nice, second supposedly identical not so good.  Probably if the second bottle had arrived first we wouldn't have complained just not ordered another one. The restaurant staff were very sniffy about changing it.  Actually said it must be fine because it was a screw top, we stood our ground got a refund and they didn't get a tip because it wasn't outstanding service.   I can't say the presence or absence of a cork makes much difference to our buying experience. 

Ps

Aldi and Lidl both have surprisingly good wines in my opinion in the £5+ bracket.  

Just looked at what's gone into our van for our latest trip, a Sainsbury's Rioja and a Lidl Merlot.  

We like Barefoot wines too, David - Malbec, Sauvignon Blanc and White Zinfandel are all good for everyday drinking ( well, maybe not quite every day!)

We get them at Sainsburys where they're normally about £6.50 a bottle, but we save our Nectar points and wait for the "buy 6, get 25% off" offers - recently bought 12 bottles for £1.50 cash! 

What! Just the 2 bottles, brue? What are you going to do after the first night away?!! 

Bottle of Pimms, does that count?

actually there are probably more stashed away under the dog blankets, anti rattle procedure...

Has anyone ever tried the phone app called Vivino.   It allows you to keep a record of the wines you drink and compare it with what others think.  If gives you an approximate price too.  I've used it a little, but I'm not an 'avid' user.  I'd be interested to hear what others think of it.

David