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any special offers on the bow?
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If you drank it Deptford you would not be buying it at Supermarkets like those.They have reduced the quality and experience to the equivelant of Budget airlines.No fault to you btw but most of the cost is TAX.I have been buying tax free since the early 80s and have some fine ones laid up but the reality is that Italy has always produced at least an equivelant and still does.
Champagne is now no more than a region and been so for 3 decades in terms of sparkling wine.....i.e It is just a name. |
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That has told me!!
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Sorry Deptford that was patronising,the truth is though what I said is true.The irony of it is that my best friend would castigate me for buying it at the same price as Italian sparkling and then ask for a couple of cases for his friends.Snobbery did not end in the UK.lol
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id like to say the bow has had some outstanding years but tbf every year is a vintage.
currently a tenner for 18 cans at chateau asda |
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Champagne is a gimmick for special occasions albeit I'll be having some on Sunday. If you can get a nice wine you like, far better value imo.......or steal your friends cocktails in which I specialise.
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Sale at Debenhams soon. Do they sell Champers or has fat Ash drunk the lot.
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Prosecco is cheaper. English Sparkling Wine tastes better.
But champagne still has that cachet. |
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chavman
Date Joined: 04 May 12 Add contact | Send message 09 Apr 19 20:09 Joined: 04 May 12 | Topic/replies: 26,237 | Blogger: chavman's blog id like to say the bow has had some outstanding years but tbf every year is a vintage. currently a tenner for 18 cans at chateau asda miss stew just phoned me from Asda. She got an eighteen pack for me.........£19.80p. That wee fkr is robbing us Scots blind. |
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Cider..(Wreck the hoose juice)..is not fit for civilised humans.hth.
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You need to stop drinking it then. hth.
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cuevee napa is decent value , champagne is just sparkling wine with a posh name
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Bollinger would be my choice and at £26 a bottle would be around the same price as around 20 years ago.
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strongbow is utter filth. it bears no more relation to cider than babycham to shampain. even its makers acknowledge this. there are some excellent real ciders around nowadays that are delicious. trendy types call them artisan, but whatever they are there has been a transformation recently in the production of beer and cider. long overdue. anyone still consuming cooking lager or strongbow is an idiot.
top class fizz is a delight but it is too expensive and aus/nz and some spanish equivalents are great value by comparison. |
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strongbow is utter filth
At 50p a can in England it's hard to argue with that. I used to buy a couple of flagons of Westons cider but sadly because of the alcohol content it's more or less unavailable in Scotland. (the still stuff) |
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Champagne is a girl’s drink. Any man caught drinking sparkling wine should have a good look in the mirror.
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^bollox you moron.
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^^ bit strong
![]() No idea you were a sparking wine fan and artisan cider drinker. Paints a great picture![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Waitrose 25% off 6 too currently
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I will stick to my Brown Bitters
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Some of the English Sparkling wines are top notch. I like Hambledons.
Not cheap, mind you. |
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kinell liddell. i started off on brown bitter(manns obv.) wouldnt touch it now
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the in drink when i was a youth was a light and bitter i. e half pint of draught bitter and a bottle of light ale ,went off the radaR WHEN LAGER BECAME FASHINABLE
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A glass or 2 with your weekend breakfast sets you up lovely for the punting bonanza
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was about 14 or so in the 70s and me and some mates used to club together and but a couple of quarts of old english cider most nights after school anyway under a tower block on the estate where we lived were pram sheds ,we knocked 3 walls down and made 3 into one put and " furnished it with old scatter cusions and carpets we had found and sat drinking the cider getting pished ,anyway when anyone wanted a pish they would use the empty cider bottles and put the lids back on and put them on the roof outside of the pram shed ,one night a gang off much older lads known bullies and druggies came to the shed and started kicking the doors wanting to get in ,anyway we all kept quiet but could hear what they were saying and hoped they would fook off ,after a while one of them said wow look they have left a bottle of cider on the roof and he took a swig of it and spat it out and went fookin beserk and kicked fook out the doors for about 15 mins threatning to kill us all if he saw us again
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A nice bottle of Veuve just opened, to wash down my Friday supper of Wing Of Skate n Chips, lovely.
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Not many chip holes selling Skate these days Dept. Veuve over rated and over here.!
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They all sell it where I live, its expensive, just over a tenner, but worth it
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A tenner for Veuve! FFS I’m moving in.
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I dont think Deptford means Veuve Cliquot, which is a very reasonable if not great Champagne. He means Veuve du Vernay which is a very ordinary French Sparkling wine made in bulk by a huge conglomerate from juice from hundreds of different vineyards.
If you want cheap fizz try Italian Pignoletto. Loads of it about in most Supermarkets. Cheaper and far better than virtually all Prosecco. |
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Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey
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Tenner for the fish n chips, Veuve Clicquot Vintage 2008 is one of my fav drinks, Asda Louvel Fontaine is decent at the price if you want something cheaper, offer at mo is £53 for 6
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https://groceries.asda.com/product/prosecco/canti-prosecco/910001519950
I'm loaded up with this stuff at the moment. Forget online it's a fiver in the shops and highly rated by the reviews. Will update later if any good. |
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I have tried that before mate, good value at the price
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Deptford... do you get you get your bubbly off Loppy ?
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Del boy
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A frenchie
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Why don't the English Sparkling Wine vineyards sell quarter-bottles, like Champagne and Prosecco?
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Ram - It is just not economically viable to do so. The same UK tax system applies (which makes UK Sparkling Wine "expensive") and the fixed costs of bottle, label, cork, crown cap, packaging are not much different to a full size bottle.
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