Cheap supermarket Burgundy

Yeah this is impossible, and i'd agree with Thom that the entry price is closer to 20 quid than 10 if you can even find it.
I've never had that Cave De Lugny but it's the only red burgundy under £24.99 at Waitrose cellar and at least in the cheaper supermarkets you often don't find red burgundy at any price (Morrisons, Sainsburys, Aldi, Lidl). Even TWS only has 13 reds in stock, cheapest is £23, only 3 are under £30.
 
Hopefully someone can recommend something cheap and cheerful, but in my wine journey I'm yet to understand what the fuss is about when it comes to Burgundy - perhaps because I am not in a position to pay £50+ every time I want to drink a good wine... Especially when I know 100% I can pay half of that and get an incredible wine from elsewhere in the world.

I posted in another thread recently that I'd got a "Too Good To Waste" yellow sticker Waitrose Cote de Beaune - £14.99, down from £36.99. It was good, but I just don't see the hype at all. Either I'm not the biggest PN fan, or I'm too poor to find out.
 
Hopefully someone can recommend something cheap and cheerful, but in my wine journey I'm yet to understand what the fuss is about when it comes to Burgundy - perhaps because I am not in a position to pay £50+ every time I want to drink a good wine... Especially when I know 100% I can pay half of that and get an incredible wine from elsewhere in the world.

I posted in another thread recently that I'd got a "Too Good To Waste" yellow sticker Waitrose Cote de Beaune - £14.99, down from £36.99. It was good, but I just don't see the hype at all. Either I'm not the biggest PN fan, or I'm too poor to find out.
Or are amazingly fortunate to not feel encouraged to go down that rabbit-hole. Long may your resolve keep up!! I am not convinced it is worth pursuing these days in Burgundy
 
It's too expensive now, it's as simple as that, and that applies even more at the low than the high end. To me really infinitely nicer than anything else I've discovered but one can't just go out and buy a few bottles to see what it's about so unless one has plenty of spare money and commitment it's best to take one's pleasure elsewhere. Were I starting again I would stick to ordering bottles in restaurants that are serious about wine, takihg advice but not getting caught up at all in pointless worry about margins.
 
I always want to ask, what's the most suitable supermarket wine for making Beef Burgundy?
A Cotes Du Rhone, I would say. Really good burgundy can make a difference applied in small quantity at the end of the process, but it's a dish I no longer love. It goes very badly with the good stuff and is intended to go with the formerly cheap wines from the Cote Chalonnaise, the Hautes Cotes, Passetoutgrains and Bourgogne Grand Ordinaire as was.
 
Hopefully someone can recommend something cheap and cheerful, but in my wine journey I'm yet to understand what the fuss is about when it comes to Burgundy - perhaps because I am not in a position to pay £50+ every time I want to drink a good wine... Especially when I know 100% I can pay half of that and get an incredible wine from elsewhere in the world.

I posted in another thread recently that I'd got a "Too Good To Waste" yellow sticker Waitrose Cote de Beaune - £14.99, down from £36.99. It was good, but I just don't see the hype at all. Either I'm not the biggest PN fan, or I'm too poor to find out.
£50 might buy you an ok one (better at auction at that price) but you are probably looking at more than £85 for a good one these days sadly.
 
that Sainsbury’s Taste The Difference wine that Tom Blach alerted us to many years ago.
I think it must have been in 2007-it was £3 a bottle and was a Mercurey from Antonin Rodet, IIRC, a respected source of whom one doesn't hear much these days, and it was a very decent genuine example. I wonder if anyone's got any left, it was the sort of wine that would have lasted effortlessly.
 
Hopefully someone can recommend something cheap and cheerful, but in my wine journey I'm yet to understand what the fuss is about when it comes to Burgundy - perhaps because I am not in a position to pay £50+ every time I want to drink a good wine... Especially when I know 100% I can pay half of that and get an incredible wine from elsewhere in the world.

I posted in another thread recently that I'd got a "Too Good To Waste" yellow sticker Waitrose Cote de Beaune - £14.99, down from £36.99. It was good, but I just don't see the hype at all. Either I'm not the biggest PN fan, or I'm too poor to find out.
I’ve bored for England on here expressing my Burgo-scepticism, Rusnam, and I fall firmly in the claret-fanciers’ camp, but I have to concede that when you get a really good red Burgundy (say, one wine in 20) they are supreme in the red-wine-world. That’s why even I kept chasing the dragon when I was still buying wine.
 
For what it's worth, I've given up looking for something to work in line with the brief, which is essentially to find 3 wines with current availability at about £10, about £20 and about £40 to serve semi-blind to see if the (non-expert) panel can tell which is which and if they think these wines at various price-points are worth buying.
So Red Burgundy is NOT a good option.
I'm going to go with South African Bordeaux Blends (all from Stellenbosch, as it happens).
Clearly the expensive wine will struggle to be both currently available and showing well, but I hope that catching in its youth will show at least a sense of impressiveness, even if the true beauty of the wine probably won't be evident.
However, I did pick up a cheap red Burg from Tesco, which I may post a note on in due course. It's a Gamay, not a Pinot, so might be OK.
 
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I think it must have been in 2007-it was £3 a bottle and was a Mercurey from Antonin Rodet, IIRC, a respected source of whom one doesn't hear much these days, and it was a very decent genuine example. I wonder if anyone's got any left, it was the sort of wine that would have lasted effortlessly.
Wouldn't surprise me if a bottle turned up somewhere in my stash...
 
Hopefully someone can recommend something cheap and cheerful, but in my wine journey I'm yet to understand what the fuss is about when it comes to Burgundy - perhaps because I am not in a position to pay £50+ every time I want to drink a good wine... Especially when I know 100% I can pay half of that and get an incredible wine from elsewhere in the world.

I posted in another thread recently that I'd got a "Too Good To Waste" yellow sticker Waitrose Cote de Beaune - £14.99, down from £36.99. It was good, but I just don't see the hype at all. Either I'm not the biggest PN fan, or I'm too poor to find out.
Cheep and cheerful doesn't apply to red Burgundy anymore. You can still find the occasional 1/2 decent white at sub 20 but even these are increasingly rare.
I've given up looking in this region for this sort of wine. I'd go for Guigals CdR if I were after a sub 20 red drinker.....
 
Aldi currently have a red and white pair for under a tenner, called Bougeron. These days they don't show the underlying producer.
IIRC I've seen favourable comment on the white, nothing on the red.
 
Hopefully someone can recommend something cheap and cheerful, but in my wine journey I'm yet to understand what the fuss is about when it comes to Burgundy - perhaps because I am not in a position to pay £50+ every time I want to drink a good wine... Especially when I know 100% I can pay half of that and get an incredible wine from elsewhere in the world.

I posted in another thread recently that I'd got a "Too Good To Waste" yellow sticker Waitrose Cote de Beaune - £14.99, down from £36.99. It was good, but I just don't see the hype at all. Either I'm not the biggest PN fan, or I'm too poor to find out.
Someone (possibly Tom?) has suggested that one can only appreciate and understand cheaper Burgundy when one has had the good stuff. I think there is something to this notion. I do often find modest Burg can be a hard sell to my friends. I see glimmers of the acid/earth/fruit balance in these wines that they just see as thin and not particularly delicious. So Cape Claret it is!
BTW - "Pinot Noir" is not the same at all - plenty of superficially delicious New World examples around ;-)
 
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