How much would you spend on a bottle of wine?

[Davey S2]

I love red wine and am not averse to spending decent money on a nice bottle.

I'd far rather spend £50+ on a nice steak and a good bottle of red to have at home than blow the same cash in a club on a few cr@p lagers.

Like most people though I dont like being ripped off and the mark ups on wine in most restaurants is horrific often being several hundred % above what you will pay from a retailer.

I've just been having a quick surf on the Berry Bros & Rudd site and the price on some of the fine wine is truly staggering (£38,500 for a case of 1989 Petrus ). Obviously bought as an investment rather than to drink but even so.

Out of interest how much do you spend on a bottle of wine for lets say (a) a nice night in with your partner with some nice food and (b) a more special occassion?

Details of any nice stuff bought as an investment is also welcome (as I assume there are a few people on here who have a cellar plan of some sort) but I'm mainly interested in the stuff you drink.

[Shaw Tarse]

The mark up on wine at a restaurant isn't "that" bad, considering they have to buy it & store it, then pay wages etc.
I can enjoy a £4 bottle of wine at home just as much as a £15 bottle.

[Zaxxon]

£20 for a nice bottle for a birthday meal

£Most spent ever was £110 for a bottle of Krug at christmas, will do it again this year as it's the nicest champagne I have ever had (hoping I was going to hate it so that Verv would be my most expensive taste).

[Davey S2]

Yes they are. Mark ups ore often several hundred % of the retail cost.

I have no problem with restaurants making a profit and covering the storage costs but a lot of them take the pi$$. London seems to be especially bad.

Gidleigh Park used to have a policy of not charging more than twice the retail price of wine (and on most goods you would consider a 100% mark up to be a rather good return) but this was dropped when it was sold.

[bennyboydurham]

Tend to steer clear of anyhing much below £10 a bottle these days. There are plenty of offers knocking around if you look - Sainsbury's had Chateau Musar for £10 a bottle a year or two back iirc. They also do a nice St Emillion on offer too which comes in at the same price.

[ChairsWithHairs]

1-2k, worth it for the right occasion

[otolith]

The everyday stuff comes in a case of mixed reds from a Laithwaites wine plan at £80, so about £6.70 a bottle. I'll probably spend a tenner if I buy a bottle in the supermarket. I would pay more for something special, but don't generally find it necessary.

[Bullett]

£6-8ish for day to day wine (the "cheap" stuff for people who think blue nun is classy)
£10-15 for a nice bottle for weekend relaxing.
£20-£50 for a special occasion.

This is home drinking, £100 for the wine tasting menu at the Fat Duck was a bargain compared to £20+ per glass in GR Royal Hospital Road.

[toasty]

I spent about £90 on a bottle of Krug once but that was a present.

The most I've spent on myself for a bottle of wine to drink at home was maybe a tenner. When you can buy fine tasting wine for a fiver these days it's hard to see the value in spending much more.

[j4ckos mate]

agreed,
it seems to me, certainly with red wine, the dear you get it just seems more sort of full bodied or thicker, if im buying a box £10-15 if a bottle no more than £6

[Pferdestarke]

£7 - £10 at home.

£15 - £40 in a restaurant

No more on occasions as I don't believe I have the palate for it.

I'm working on it though.

Hic

[yorkieboy]

Off topic sorry, Worked in the Chateauneuf du pape picking grapes in 1997. The domain I worked at, got a gold award in 1989 and it has always been a fav of mine, seem to recall I could purchase it for around £12 back then. Never been able to find it again. Unbieveably a beautiful bottle of wine.

[lauda]

I normally spend the most on dessert wine. This is because a) it is quite expensive anyway and b) I'm normally quite pissed by the time I order it and therefore struggle to show any restraint.

I think £100 for a bottle is the most I would stretch to as there is very much a law of ever diminishing returns with wine. I'm certainly not going to enjoy a £1000 bottle ten times more than I would enjoy a £100 one.

[Stu R]

£100 is about my limit too, but £50 would be a real treat. £15-20 is about the most I'll spend for a something that doesn't get kept.

[Davey S2]

lauda said:

I think £100 for a bottle is the most I would stretch to as there is very much a law of ever diminishing returns with wine. I'm certainly not going to enjoy a £1000 bottle ten times more than I would enjoy a £100 one.

My sentiments exactly.

£20 gets you a very nice bottle of wine in a shop.

I'd still love to try a great vintage first growth claret or something like Petrus or Le Pin just to see what it was really like.

[EarlOfHazard]

Any more than £500 on a bottle, and you're pissing your money down the drain.

[x type]

EarlOfHazard said:

Any more than £500 on a bottle, and you're pissing your money down the drain.

don't you mean £5 a bottle all we do is the stuff then pour it down the big white bog

[EarlOfHazard]

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EarlOfHazard said:

Any more than £500 on a bottle, and you're pissing your money down the drain.

don't you mean £5 a bottle all we do is the stuff then pour it down the big white bog

Oh I was only joking. Yeah I think a tenner is the most I've spent on a bottle. If I actually spent £500 on a bottle, I certainly wouldn't drink it or even open it, and what my friend, is the point in that !

[Pothole]

I'm enjoying some of the dreadful ste in the 3 for a tenner offer at ASDA at the moment!

[Mobile Chicane]

To spend serious amounts of money on wine, it would be to enjoy at home, in select company, since I (presently) can't afford to eat out at restaurants which have decent cellars.