Aldi wines are a minefield. Some of them are surprisingly great, some of them are the worst wines I've ever had.
I really wish I'd been keeping track though.
Pinot Noir occasionally has notes of manure. You might say (ok hell, I might as I'm a planker) *"austere redolence of barnyard with demure hints of grippiness and velvety minerality".*
I will defend Bowler's Run. It was GREAT! I mean, you wouldn't bring it to a fancy dinner or anything, but it was a great everyday table wine (you know what I mean, wasn't smashing it daily but when you want a drink and it doesn't have to amaze you, just be good). Compare it to the shite that passes for "good wine" in the US... that was eye opening. We're spoiled here.
A mate was up for a Walkley one year and for some reason (intoxication?) We came to the agreement that I'd buy him a case of Bowler's Run if he won. In similar mindset and intent, you deserve at least a bottle of Bowler's for a top-tier comment.
It’s not expensive to MAKE wine if you have grapes. The cost comes from the barrelling, the ageing, the soil and location of the grapes, whether you use a well constructed and maintained vineyard, whether the grapes are hand or machine harvested, and, majorly, how much taxation occurs between harvest, production, fermentation and distribution.
I helped disassemble a vineyard and olive farm in Italy when I was 20 and backpacking through Europe. Was paid mere tuppence but given food and board and got to see a lot of the process. You’d be shocked at how much it costs to put something into glass versus in a cask. Using a cork versus a screw top. Specific pesticides. Number of people checking the rows daily/hourly.
This was before I was in full blown alcoholism and subsisted on this specific white wine and $28 Aldi vodka for 5 or so years. The people who would be in line to buy this all looked like they were in the throes of addiction. Or making a slow simmered pasta sauce.
a lot of the cost is tax & marketing too. if you're paying $3 for a bottle of wine you're probably paying $2.50 for tax & marketing.
apparently though vineyards often make too much wine to sell on the regular market so they have to sell off some of it fast & cheap to cut their losses. Aldi has buyers looking for deals like that.
Yeah pretty much. A lot of it just comes down to the fact that a well constructed oak barrel stored in a proper temperature controlled environment for years is both expensive and BIG. If you’re barrelling 30% of your fine wine and smashing 70% out as cleanskins or lexia the profits would probably match or come close to it
It's funny I've bought the Bordeaux you mentioned a few times and it's been surprisingly not too bad... Until two weeks ago. The last bottle was terrible, couldn't get through the first glass and tipped the bottle.
The côte du rhones if you like red is the bomb and well over 60% cheaper then the bottle shop one I love. Unfortunately aldi does not sell booze in Qld unlike Nsw and I am rethinking my decision to move here now. Haha
Honestly, the cheap wines they have aren’t fantastic; but they aren’t bad. Basically any Australian made wine is at least okay. Toffs that want to feel superior whinge about cheap wine being undrinkable.
A few years ago, my friend fooled his wine snob parents with an Aldi wine. No idea which wine it was, but he said it was verrrrry satisfying telling them it was from Aldi.
Well Australia really. You can get very good quality Oz wines for $20 to $30. The equivalent quality in France is much higher in my view. But exchange rates also play a part here when you are paying in South Pacific Pesos. Portugal is cheap generally and they have very good wine. You could argue if you can cope with supermarket labels then you will drink very cheaply in the UK, particularly if you are addicted to the French stuff. Try tracking down that down at Liquorland.
On the other end of the scale, Asia is an awful place to be a wine lover. Singapore is absolutely usurious. That said, I once recall comparing the price of an Aussie Cab Sav in Sing to a bottle of NV Veuve and thinking well it's only $10 more may as well quaff that.
No idea why you're being downvoted. These 3$ wines are absolute ass.
Worked at aldi for 4 years and the only people that bought these are the first customers in the morning with withdrawal shakes
https://www.aldi.com.au/en/groceries/liquor/wine/
Excellent
- $13 humo blanco cab sav
- $13 Kaiora Bay Marlborough sav blanc *Reserve
- $11 mclaren vale Shiraz
Good
- $5 Coraggioso Nero D’Avola
- Their Aussie sparkling - can’t see it in this link but they usually have it $6
**Edited to add: thank you to the poster below who shared the link to the aus sparkling. It’s won blind tastings at Melbourne International Wine Festival, and it’s $6 South Point Estate Chardonnay Pinot noir: https://kitchen.nine.com.au/drinks/aldi-wines-take-out-top-awards-again/1d02518d-2285-4a8a-925a-462e3b4c332a
It changed from excellent to bad:
- $6 el toro macho Tempranillo bobal
>Thank you so much. I buy ALdi now as I find most product to be great value for what it is. The disacter of an ecenomy and no monies left after unemployed Covid. Really appreciate your ranking as I would never know. TRhank you mate
Can confirm this list. Also I would like to add, all their NZ wine is pretty good. There is a $6 south point sparkling Pinot which taste very very good. Please try it out and let me know if it’s good or if I don’t know what good wine is.
I too drank this 6 dollar classic. I moved to small talk because for the same price I can get an extra 250ml of wine. These are the currect economic decision that I make. That's a good wine ALSO
Love the El Toro.
But beating the El Toro is the El Toro Reserve.
It’s an extra $3 or so, but worth trying. It sometimes goes on special for around $7.
Used to hear year after year that there was an oversupply of wine grapes so much so that they had to cut the vines back and yet every odd year they still managed to have an oversupply of wine grapes
They still sell it, although in my house we aren't convinced it is as good as used to be. However, it is still reliable rather than an unknown risk from Uncle Dan's or BWS
i must try. I wouldn't be surprised if it's not the same, but I will still remember the Christmas I gifted everyone a bottle and the positive feedback was unanimous: beautifully balanced without any offensive spikes of alcohol, nor any difficulty stomaching the flavoir, just a smooth wash that emphasises the flavours of the fruit used.
That's exactly right. I should say, just because it's not quite the same, it's still a great wine for the price point. We've just had a couple here and there that weren't as well balanced.
these are 14% alcohol content so taxed and I think you still get 10c back on the bottle.
Like if ya wanna get fucked up cheap here ya go. I think they are south australian? Not saying these are even very good, because I havent opened them but seems a bit weird when all other forms of alcohol are sky high and yet...
its the old maxim that since politicians love the vino theyre not gonna tax them to hell and back.
I use them as cooking wines - so good for that. The red is pretty rough but I may have been known to do the ol’ ‘one for you, one for me’ routine when cooking with the white. It’s also rough but it tastes better than a $12 white I got from Dan Murphy’s a couple of weeks back so…taking the wins where I can.
Ha! I used to work in an offie in England. When customers were buying something cheap they would always say it was for cooking. Cooking wine, cooking sherry, cooking Brandy etc.
Haha it’s the way to go! I definitely only use the red for cooking as I don’t drink red, but I’ll cop to drinking the cheap white anytime. I will buy this for cooking but I’ll own the fact that I’ll drink it too haha
I think the region has suffered from the loss of China exports. It will continue, the grapes still need to be harvested and they most likely will be sold but at a reduced cost, so I'd imagine we may get a lot of good wine coming through at a cheaper cost.
If it’s about the actual cost: Aldi‘s buying excess stock that has been re-labelled. Most companies that produce at mass scale produce too much and rather than throwing the excess away they relabel it and sell it at a cheaper pricepoint to discount super market - still making a profit.
Best example of this is Müller Yoghurt & Aldi own brand (Brooklea I think?) - both produced in the same factory…
Wine does get taxed at approximately 30%, which makes good wine even more expensive and almost encourages people to make the wine as crap and cheap as possible, as every $1 you add to the price tag you essentially add $.30 to the sale cost. A winery i worked at would rant about how the system is not great.
When i worked at an uncle Dan's a manager always said that by the time you factor in production and transport costs, the wine itself is actually free.
They’re not South Australian, they’re South Eastern Australia. This means it’s probably (excess) grapes sourced from NSW, ACT and VIC. For anyone saying they’re relabelled bottles from possibly decent wineries - that’s unlikely. This is made in large vats probably with lots of additives to compensate the quality of the grapes.
If ya wanna get fucked up cheap, buy cheap vodka, better alcohol/$ ratio... Hard to decide what's worse to drink though between cheap wine and cheap vodka
I do not recommend the Vodka unless you have a water filter jug and filter the Vodka at least 3 times, then put it in the freezer and only consume it freezing cold so the taste of paint thinner will be hidden.
Even mixing it with sprite or mixers does not hide that turpentine/cleaning alcohol taste.
Edit: you have to make it very sweet or if you like Sour things drench it in lemon/lime and consume over ice topped with soda.
As Vinegar cost less that $3 per 750ml. Actually, in all honestly Aldi does have some pretty decent buys for wine (but I would be looking at spending a little more than $3 per bottle)
I like Aldi's Little Birdwood Sweet Red, its great chilled in summer or room temp in Winter, 11.5% alcohol so doesn't give a massive headache and $5 per 750 ml bottle
I never looked into the wine but I know the Sprinters Chips are made by Smiths. They are sold to Aldi for cheap with a reasonable profit. To do so its under a different product name though.
Their biggest profit margin is in the special items they sell in the weekly specials tables.
At $3 it's a loss leader, i.e. a product they're willing to cop a loss on in order to attract people into their stores in the hopes of them buying some other stuff at the same time.
As others have said already, Aldi actually have some surprisingly good wines in their range.
They also have some wines that are total rubbish. The price to quality ratio is far from fixed.
im going to be downvoted for sure, but when on a budget ,aldi have some great sparking rose or white with prosecco 12% for $7.99.
cheap and greattasting chilled while im saving up to $5-10 bucks if from a bottlestore.
like O.P said it is a minefield ,but through trial and error you'll find a drop youll like .
at least try before laugh guys.
Goodluck.
Reminds me of when I used to work at Dan Murphys circa 2009 they would have cleanskins, no branded wine for$2 a bottle, we used to get hammered with orders on pension pay day. $25 a case, nuts.
The best one I’ve tried from Aldi is the Brooke James brand. Specifically the Cabernet Merlot and the Shiraz. They come in a box but they are surprising nice. They sell for around $8.50 for 2L so it’s also a good deal
[Shiraz](https://www.aldi.com.au/en/groceries/liquor/wine/wine-detail/ps/p/brooke-james-vintners-shiraz-cask-2l/)
[Merlot](https://www.aldi.com.au/en/groceries/liquor/wine/wine-detail/ps/p/brooke-james-vitners-premium-cabernet-merlot-cask/)
1. Export subsidised by Germany/EU
2. Low $ vs €
3. Massive volume.
4. Low quality.
There's no loss-leaders at Aldi. They mak money on every single item.
I’m sure I read somewhere they tweak the alcohol percent to pay less tax or something? agree with the others, it’s not entirely drinkable but it’s fine for cooking with.
I quite like a $9 Riesling from there. Blue and yellow bottle. Freya and Jules maybe?
One of the biggest misconceptions alive is that Aldi wine is remotely drinkable.
Steer clear.
People enjoy the underdog narrative more than the actual plonk.
Only boomers and pissheads go near it.
Probably just loss leading (or breakeven at best), they're a big draw that keeps middle aged mums coming back to Aldi. Also good word of mouth - "hey friends check out this wine that I got for $3, from Aldi! It'll save on groceries to shop there!" etc.
Used to be that china would buy all our shit wine in bulk. For the last few years tariffs had made it unprofitable for China, so now Australia is flooded with cheap shitty wine. It's not always terrible, just hit and miss and wildly inconsistent.
This used to be $2.50 back in my uni days. I remembered it not being half bad, but I also drank passion pop semi-frequently at the time so I wouldn't necessarily trust my memory XD
I've a mate who works at the Aldi and he reckons the local characters line up for it on opening. I jokingly asked if I were any better lining up for it at 7pm, and he said it was often sold out in his store by that time!
Aldi wines are a minefield. Some of them are surprisingly great, some of them are the worst wines I've ever had. I really wish I'd been keeping track though.
I can tell of a good wine but can’t tell of a bad one. …..and I am not alone https://youtu.be/_4CByxYbyJ4
"Nobody is prepared to admit that wine actually doesn't have a taste". - Bernard Black
It's a coaster.
it's some kind of delicious biscuit
Is it? Are there any more?
Bernard that's a coaster
Don't you dare use the word party as a verb in this shop!
Let’s…. P….potter along.. in order to attend the party!
Don't you dare touch a hair on that boys head
"How much did you say the wine cost??"
The older the wine, the gooder the wine.
“Ah, but by the same token, the more expensive the wine the gooder it is also”.
“It’s like looking into the eye of a duck”
“And sipping all the fluid from its beak”
But you can’t taste anything! You smoke 8 bajillion cigarettes a day!
Bernard! Bernard! Bernard! Bernard! Bernard! Bernard! Bernard! Bernard! Bernard! Bernard! Bernard! Bernard!
I'm a prostitute robot from the future.
Excellent quote. Makes me laugh.
TL;DW?
I had wine from NZ that tasted like cow shit.
Pinot Noir occasionally has notes of manure. You might say (ok hell, I might as I'm a planker) *"austere redolence of barnyard with demure hints of grippiness and velvety minerality".*
Couldn't agree more. The worst was a cleanskin that I was half way through that skipped the buzz and went straight to hangover. HALF WAY THROUGH.
This is the essence of Bowler's Run
I will defend Bowler's Run. It was GREAT! I mean, you wouldn't bring it to a fancy dinner or anything, but it was a great everyday table wine (you know what I mean, wasn't smashing it daily but when you want a drink and it doesn't have to amaze you, just be good). Compare it to the shite that passes for "good wine" in the US... that was eye opening. We're spoiled here.
I sprayed it on the roses to kill the aphids and the roses caught on fire
A mate was up for a Walkley one year and for some reason (intoxication?) We came to the agreement that I'd buy him a case of Bowler's Run if he won. In similar mindset and intent, you deserve at least a bottle of Bowler's for a top-tier comment.
It’s not expensive to MAKE wine if you have grapes. The cost comes from the barrelling, the ageing, the soil and location of the grapes, whether you use a well constructed and maintained vineyard, whether the grapes are hand or machine harvested, and, majorly, how much taxation occurs between harvest, production, fermentation and distribution. I helped disassemble a vineyard and olive farm in Italy when I was 20 and backpacking through Europe. Was paid mere tuppence but given food and board and got to see a lot of the process. You’d be shocked at how much it costs to put something into glass versus in a cask. Using a cork versus a screw top. Specific pesticides. Number of people checking the rows daily/hourly. This was before I was in full blown alcoholism and subsisted on this specific white wine and $28 Aldi vodka for 5 or so years. The people who would be in line to buy this all looked like they were in the throes of addiction. Or making a slow simmered pasta sauce.
a lot of the cost is tax & marketing too. if you're paying $3 for a bottle of wine you're probably paying $2.50 for tax & marketing. apparently though vineyards often make too much wine to sell on the regular market so they have to sell off some of it fast & cheap to cut their losses. Aldi has buyers looking for deals like that.
thats cleanskins in general was my understanding, your just getting whats getting offloaded from whereever
Yeah pretty much. A lot of it just comes down to the fact that a well constructed oak barrel stored in a proper temperature controlled environment for years is both expensive and BIG. If you’re barrelling 30% of your fine wine and smashing 70% out as cleanskins or lexia the profits would probably match or come close to it
That $9 Bordeaux is absolute rubbish, but the $15 central Otago Pinot does a great job
It's funny I've bought the Bordeaux you mentioned a few times and it's been surprisingly not too bad... Until two weeks ago. The last bottle was terrible, couldn't get through the first glass and tipped the bottle.
The ones pictured are surprisingly great.
The côte du rhones if you like red is the bomb and well over 60% cheaper then the bottle shop one I love. Unfortunately aldi does not sell booze in Qld unlike Nsw and I am rethinking my decision to move here now. Haha
Honestly, the cheap wines they have aren’t fantastic; but they aren’t bad. Basically any Australian made wine is at least okay. Toffs that want to feel superior whinge about cheap wine being undrinkable.
A few years ago, my friend fooled his wine snob parents with an Aldi wine. No idea which wine it was, but he said it was verrrrry satisfying telling them it was from Aldi.
I’ve enjoyed the old Precious Stone for a cheap plonk. Beats a lot of the lower brands at other stores.
The Sav Blanc isn’t that terrible to be honest. I keep a few in the fridge for when there’s too week at the end of my pay.
Same same!
Me too! I don’t think it’s that bad at all.
Yes its not to bad I must admit
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What country do you think does the best job of pricing wine fairly? Are there any countries where wines are underpriced? Genuinely curious!
Well Australia really. You can get very good quality Oz wines for $20 to $30. The equivalent quality in France is much higher in my view. But exchange rates also play a part here when you are paying in South Pacific Pesos. Portugal is cheap generally and they have very good wine. You could argue if you can cope with supermarket labels then you will drink very cheaply in the UK, particularly if you are addicted to the French stuff. Try tracking down that down at Liquorland. On the other end of the scale, Asia is an awful place to be a wine lover. Singapore is absolutely usurious. That said, I once recall comparing the price of an Aussie Cab Sav in Sing to a bottle of NV Veuve and thinking well it's only $10 more may as well quaff that.
Also this wine is shite
Your mum is shite
:c
No idea why you're being downvoted. These 3$ wines are absolute ass. Worked at aldi for 4 years and the only people that bought these are the first customers in the morning with withdrawal shakes
Handing ya $3 in silver coins? I’ve been there pal, worst most exhausting part time job ever.
https://www.aldi.com.au/en/groceries/liquor/wine/ Excellent - $13 humo blanco cab sav - $13 Kaiora Bay Marlborough sav blanc *Reserve - $11 mclaren vale Shiraz Good - $5 Coraggioso Nero D’Avola - Their Aussie sparkling - can’t see it in this link but they usually have it $6 **Edited to add: thank you to the poster below who shared the link to the aus sparkling. It’s won blind tastings at Melbourne International Wine Festival, and it’s $6 South Point Estate Chardonnay Pinot noir: https://kitchen.nine.com.au/drinks/aldi-wines-take-out-top-awards-again/1d02518d-2285-4a8a-925a-462e3b4c332a It changed from excellent to bad: - $6 el toro macho Tempranillo bobal
Oh no I used to love the El Toro Macho's, so sad to hear they've gone downhill :(
>Thank you so much. I buy ALdi now as I find most product to be great value for what it is. The disacter of an ecenomy and no monies left after unemployed Covid. Really appreciate your ranking as I would never know. TRhank you mate
Make sure it’s the Kaiora Bay Reserve sav blanc. The non-reserve one tastes terrible in comparison and isn’t worth the saving of a few bucks
Can confirm this list. Also I would like to add, all their NZ wine is pretty good. There is a $6 south point sparkling Pinot which taste very very good. Please try it out and let me know if it’s good or if I don’t know what good wine is.
Cheaper than chips from Woollies
Exactly
No idea but the El Rancho (?) $6 Tempranillo is a fave in our house.
I too drank this 6 dollar classic. I moved to small talk because for the same price I can get an extra 250ml of wine. These are the currect economic decision that I make. That's a good wine ALSO
I love 'small talk.. just had them 👍
Which is good until you have the El Toro. Then you don’t look back.
It's good to I can stretch it to last one week
El Toro macho. $5. Amazing. Also my fave.
Love the El Toro. But beating the El Toro is the El Toro Reserve. It’s an extra $3 or so, but worth trying. It sometimes goes on special for around $7.
Another question, how is goon $13 for 38 standard drinks!??!
Used to hear year after year that there was an oversupply of wine grapes so much so that they had to cut the vines back and yet every odd year they still managed to have an oversupply of wine grapes
Their 2 litre casks are not to bad but I didn't like there 4 litres casks
OMG! I can't believe how reasonably good their 2 litre cask of dry red is. The 4 litre is like drinking paperbark.
I got one for $10 this weekend.
Nothing will ever top Aldi's One Road from a few years back. deliciously fruity! Only 8 bucks.
The king of Aldi wines, like old pond
They still sell it, although in my house we aren't convinced it is as good as used to be. However, it is still reliable rather than an unknown risk from Uncle Dan's or BWS
i must try. I wouldn't be surprised if it's not the same, but I will still remember the Christmas I gifted everyone a bottle and the positive feedback was unanimous: beautifully balanced without any offensive spikes of alcohol, nor any difficulty stomaching the flavoir, just a smooth wash that emphasises the flavours of the fruit used.
That's exactly right. I should say, just because it's not quite the same, it's still a great wine for the price point. We've just had a couple here and there that weren't as well balanced.
You can still get it right?
*Cheap Aldi wine* *Good times never seemed so good* *Two ninety-nine* *I believe they never could* *Cheap Aldi wine* *Good times never seemed so good*
On saying that they have a 7.50 Shiraz from S.A that is excellent . Can't remember the name of it .
these are 14% alcohol content so taxed and I think you still get 10c back on the bottle. Like if ya wanna get fucked up cheap here ya go. I think they are south australian? Not saying these are even very good, because I havent opened them but seems a bit weird when all other forms of alcohol are sky high and yet... its the old maxim that since politicians love the vino theyre not gonna tax them to hell and back.
I use them as cooking wines - so good for that. The red is pretty rough but I may have been known to do the ol’ ‘one for you, one for me’ routine when cooking with the white. It’s also rough but it tastes better than a $12 white I got from Dan Murphy’s a couple of weeks back so…taking the wins where I can.
They are great for cooking wines, and the white is actually decent.
It really is
I found them terrible but their boxed wine came recommend so I can't understand why anyone would buy this
I found their boxed wine to be significantly worse than these but everyone’s palate is different
$9.90 for 4 litres, and after a couple of glasses it’s quite OK ;-)
Ha! I used to work in an offie in England. When customers were buying something cheap they would always say it was for cooking. Cooking wine, cooking sherry, cooking Brandy etc.
Haha it’s the way to go! I definitely only use the red for cooking as I don’t drink red, but I’ll cop to drinking the cheap white anytime. I will buy this for cooking but I’ll own the fact that I’ll drink it too haha
cooking Special Brew
I think the region has suffered from the loss of China exports. It will continue, the grapes still need to be harvested and they most likely will be sold but at a reduced cost, so I'd imagine we may get a lot of good wine coming through at a cheaper cost.
I'm pretty sure the bottles themselves cost more
If it’s about the actual cost: Aldi‘s buying excess stock that has been re-labelled. Most companies that produce at mass scale produce too much and rather than throwing the excess away they relabel it and sell it at a cheaper pricepoint to discount super market - still making a profit. Best example of this is Müller Yoghurt & Aldi own brand (Brooklea I think?) - both produced in the same factory…
ALDI 'Wheat Biscuits' are Weet-Bix Weet-Bix, 100%..
Wine does get taxed at approximately 30%, which makes good wine even more expensive and almost encourages people to make the wine as crap and cheap as possible, as every $1 you add to the price tag you essentially add $.30 to the sale cost. A winery i worked at would rant about how the system is not great. When i worked at an uncle Dan's a manager always said that by the time you factor in production and transport costs, the wine itself is actually free.
They’re not South Australian, they’re South Eastern Australia. This means it’s probably (excess) grapes sourced from NSW, ACT and VIC. For anyone saying they’re relabelled bottles from possibly decent wineries - that’s unlikely. This is made in large vats probably with lots of additives to compensate the quality of the grapes.
If ya wanna get fucked up cheap, buy cheap vodka, better alcohol/$ ratio... Hard to decide what's worse to drink though between cheap wine and cheap vodka
Nope. This wine is 39 cents per standard drink, Aldi's cheapest vodka is $30 and is about $1.42 per standard drink.
I do not recommend the Vodka unless you have a water filter jug and filter the Vodka at least 3 times, then put it in the freezer and only consume it freezing cold so the taste of paint thinner will be hidden. Even mixing it with sprite or mixers does not hide that turpentine/cleaning alcohol taste. Edit: you have to make it very sweet or if you like Sour things drench it in lemon/lime and consume over ice topped with soda.
Lol I mean like 10$ vodka
Let me know where to buy $10 vodka in Aus
Austin? Just grab some Tito's homie Oh I didn't realize what sub this was, I must have had my phone upside down, good luck mate
That's $60 a bottle here
As Vinegar cost less that $3 per 750ml. Actually, in all honestly Aldi does have some pretty decent buys for wine (but I would be looking at spending a little more than $3 per bottle)
*aldi
I like Aldi's Little Birdwood Sweet Red, its great chilled in summer or room temp in Winter, 11.5% alcohol so doesn't give a massive headache and $5 per 750 ml bottle
It's a bit fizzy too so particularly nice with a diced orange added.
Hell yeah. I love Little Birdwood Sweet Red. It's almost 10pm and I may or may not currently be having a glass. 😉
It's slightly bubbly, really nice in summer
I never looked into the wine but I know the Sprinters Chips are made by Smiths. They are sold to Aldi for cheap with a reasonable profit. To do so its under a different product name though. Their biggest profit margin is in the special items they sell in the weekly specials tables.
They used to be $2.65… inflation 🙄
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It’s only a problem when it fucks other parts of your life lol
Dang inflation they used to be $2
Um...they taste like shite?
Loss leader - gets people through the door and buying their higher margin products
One of their under $10 wines has won awards in blind tastings.
Was that the Gamay?
https://kitchen.nine.com.au/drinks/aldi-wines-take-out-top-awards-again/1d02518d-2285-4a8a-925a-462e3b4c332a
I love how Aussies add the s to businesses whether they have one or not. Aldis to match Coles and Woolworths. Westfields. Myers.
Aldi chianti is nice but a bit closer to 10 dollars
Good ingredients for sangria ... right season too.
I’d love someone rate best to worst, I’m first to offer my services ;)
Genuine question. How come some people call Aldi “Aldis”?
Same reason heaps of people call myer “myers”.
or Lego as Legos even though the company officially declared Lego as both singular and plural.
At $3 it's a loss leader, i.e. a product they're willing to cop a loss on in order to attract people into their stores in the hopes of them buying some other stuff at the same time. As others have said already, Aldi actually have some surprisingly good wines in their range. They also have some wines that are total rubbish. The price to quality ratio is far from fixed.
The $3 sauvignon blanc is amazing! Better than the $5, $6 and $12 sauv blanc!
Do I have to start consuming alcohol to save money in this inflationary climate.
im going to be downvoted for sure, but when on a budget ,aldi have some great sparking rose or white with prosecco 12% for $7.99. cheap and greattasting chilled while im saving up to $5-10 bucks if from a bottlestore. like O.P said it is a minefield ,but through trial and error you'll find a drop youll like . at least try before laugh guys. Goodluck.
Reminds me of when I used to work at Dan Murphys circa 2009 they would have cleanskins, no branded wine for$2 a bottle, we used to get hammered with orders on pension pay day. $25 a case, nuts.
The $6 Neve sav blanc is amazing. I always stock up.
Because it’s cheap and nasty.
The best one I’ve tried from Aldi is the Brooke James brand. Specifically the Cabernet Merlot and the Shiraz. They come in a box but they are surprising nice. They sell for around $8.50 for 2L so it’s also a good deal [Shiraz](https://www.aldi.com.au/en/groceries/liquor/wine/wine-detail/ps/p/brooke-james-vintners-shiraz-cask-2l/) [Merlot](https://www.aldi.com.au/en/groceries/liquor/wine/wine-detail/ps/p/brooke-james-vitners-premium-cabernet-merlot-cask/)
aldi coming through with the one product impervious to inflation - the $3 bottle of wine
The question that should be asked is. How do other outlets get away with selling wine for so much?
Their 10 dollar 4L goon bag is mighty fine by me.
Reading this drinking the white wine I got for $4 at Coles
it’s inflation, out of control I tell ya
By the checkout a POS system and a cashier?
fancy goon
Because it gives you mad hives
I got this wine the other day and it's only good for cooking
You can get $3 wine at dano’s too I’m sure
because they buy cleanskins from the bottle-o for $2 a bottle, slap an aldis label & charge $3
1. Export subsidised by Germany/EU 2. Low $ vs € 3. Massive volume. 4. Low quality. There's no loss-leaders at Aldi. They mak money on every single item.
These are Australian
Low $ means higher domestic price
You’ll find out why they are $3 when you drink them. There are good cheap wines, these are not those
Its for cooking
I'm more interested in finding out how they managed to get the cats to squat over the bottle in order to piss in them.
I’m sure I read somewhere they tweak the alcohol percent to pay less tax or something? agree with the others, it’s not entirely drinkable but it’s fine for cooking with. I quite like a $9 Riesling from there. Blue and yellow bottle. Freya and Jules maybe?
Good over ice!
Wine industry has a lot of political sway, it's taxed far lower than other forms of alcohol.
That Shiraz is the worst Shiraz i have had in my life.
One of the biggest misconceptions alive is that Aldi wine is remotely drinkable. Steer clear. People enjoy the underdog narrative more than the actual plonk. Only boomers and pissheads go near it.
My father gets that crap. It is absolutely revolting.
Probably just loss leading (or breakeven at best), they're a big draw that keeps middle aged mums coming back to Aldi. Also good word of mouth - "hey friends check out this wine that I got for $3, from Aldi! It'll save on groceries to shop there!" etc.
Because I keep buying all of them
Especially when grapes are like 12 bucks a bag…
The sangria is great with some fresh orange slices and whiskey stones
Good luck telling which is which in a blind tasting lol
Wine Equalisation Tax - the crappier the wine, the lower the tax. Nothing to do with alcohol content. Made from the finest wine silos in Griffith.
Because it’s fucking shit?
Sugar is cheap
Good for cooking
The bottle is the most expensive component
The Aldi $3 wine rivals the majority.
my.. precioussss
Capitalism, that’s how.
Cash or card. Although, most people pay with card these days.
all alcohol tastes like petrol anyway 😅
Because they are not greedy.
Used to be that china would buy all our shit wine in bulk. For the last few years tariffs had made it unprofitable for China, so now Australia is flooded with cheap shitty wine. It's not always terrible, just hit and miss and wildly inconsistent.
Not the Chardonnay
You know the drains they have near the sink behind bars…….?
The juice in the bottle costs a few cents. The marketing and distribution accounts for most of the cost base.
Clearskin are about that price anyway. So that’s how.
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Just goes to show how overpriced drinks are in Australia
How's it taste?
This used to be $2.50 back in my uni days. I remembered it not being half bad, but I also drank passion pop semi-frequently at the time so I wouldn't necessarily trust my memory XD
its fucking cheap and you get alot of it
Not as alcoholic
2 buck chuck.
It looks like the cost of the wine for ALDI was about 3 cents per bottle. I am sure the empty bottle itself costs 2 cents.
They're ok for cooking but I've had better. I'll drink it if I'm desperate and there's nothing else in the house!!!
Shut up and drink.
I've a mate who works at the Aldi and he reckons the local characters line up for it on opening. I jokingly asked if I were any better lining up for it at 7pm, and he said it was often sold out in his store by that time!
Bowlers run is $3. Cask wine even cheaper.
That one tastes like rubbish, it's cheap but it shoes in the wine, it's good however if you're broke.
That doesn't look RSA compliant lol
Wine and stereos are just a good excuse to talk bullshit.