What would you expect to pay for a Good red wine?

Answer 1

Ken, it depends on where the wine is originating from. Ultimately a good red wine is the wine you like. For example, I spent just under £5 on a Spanish red last night and it was top drawer.
However if you are approaching it for the purposes of buying a present, if you are able to find it there is a wine called Gorilla from the South of France and costs between £11 - £18 depending on where you purchase it from, and as well as being the mutts nuts, a percentage of the cost goes to saving gorillas, so it can't all be bad.
If you are looking at serious contenders without paying over the odds, look no further than Bordeaux. Some of the big wineries/ chateaux are limited to the number of bottles they can produce under a certain label, so a wee bit of research into who makes what can turn up treasures. Sotheby's wine atlas can be seen in many a good book shop. Look through it (it costs £40) refer to which wines sound right and then see if you can source them locally. At this time of year many specialist high street off licences carry their "exclusive" stock, and will be able to recommend another option, if they do not have the one you want. Traipsing off to a supermarket will not do you any favours as they do not have specialists on the floor to help. The target is no more than £20 ($40 or 50 euro) and that includes wrapping.
Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Expect to pay what you want to!
For example, to you and to me, and to everybody else, a good bottle of wine is basically a good bottle of wine.Its wine that tastes good to the individual who likes it .
Ignore the label and the trumped up advertisements also avoid the so called experts telling you that this wine is better than that wine.
Just because a wine expert who is probably getting paid far too much to say that such and such a vineyard has a better wine than such and such other,does not make it any truer than you saying it
You decide, experiment with different bottles only you will be able to find whats best for your own palate.
We all have different tastes and we all taste things differently.
Making something more expensive does not necessarily make it better. I like pizza with anchovies my wife hates pizza with anchovies There therefore exists a paradox: even though mines a little more expensive,Its still only a pizza,and whats more if everybody liked what everbody else liked ,there would be no such thing as menu's and Mc Donalds would be the only food outlet in existence.
Don't be manipulated by the wine fascists, a vin ordinare to them may taste like nectar from the gods to you....Notice I tried not to mention what wine experts would deem the best bottle of wine to be.
That's probably because firstly you probably could not afford it, and more importantly, they could never know.Yes beauty is in the eye of the beholder,even if the sensory organ doing the beholding is the tongue.

Answer 3

Thanks to the market for red wine increasing so much in the last few years you can get a really nice bottle of wine for 7-10 quid.

Wolf blass yellow label being a really nice wine.
expect to pay a bit more for a decent Rioja 10-15 quid
I always find chilean wines provide great value and great taste.

I also fell there is a gap in quality versus price. I.e. you can buy a 7-10 pound bottle of wine and the next serious step up in quality is around the 40 pound mark.

depends a bit on who you are trying to impress too. No point buying a 40 pound bottle of wine for someone who wont even realise it.

Answer 4

I guess it all depends on what you like, personally I think you can't go too far wrong with an Australian red from Tesco's at £3-5 a bottle, and after a couple of glasses you know whether you've hit the spot or not. There is a lot of snobbery in wine circles, but my philosophy is if you are happy with it and the price is OK then that's a result! I am sitting here typing this with a large glass of Ozzy red and enjoying your company, does life get any better?

Answer 5

If you know what you are looking for, you can get an excellent quality red from under a fiver upwards - for example, you can get a really decent Chilean Merlot for £3.99!! If you are looking for a good wine you don't have to spend a lot of money, its knowing which types of wines to buy from which countries, regions, producers etc, understanding appelations etc - buy yourself an introductory wine book such as Oz Clarke's book - you will be surprised how easy it is to lean to pick out really good wine without spending much money - and there are expensive wines which are really not worth the money - you will see fancy looking bottles of french red for £25 on the top shelf which are actually pathetic compared to the real thing, and vice versa.

Answer 6

Good is too broad a term. I might drink a bottle of £10 Rioja (never a let down) and think 'hmm, good'.
But you can buy wines for thousands that go somewhat beyond good and are amazing (not terribly often). Some, sadly, which are priced at thousands merely for their age and prestige, rather than the actual quality, enter realms of the absurd in price.
Go with a Rioja between £10 and £20 from a 1998-2000 vintage if you want a 'good' bottle of wine.

Answer 7

As you can see, from the answers in quid, pound, boffins, dollars and zlotys, it helps to say where you are shopping. I'm in California. So, for Zinfandel, Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot:

For my wife and I, weeknight, neither of us have cooked anything special - $3. to $6; depending on the sales at the grocery stores.
Forrestville, Berringer or Sutter Home

Weekend, we have more time to cook, but no guests - $5 to $10; Fetzer more often than not, but Woodbridge too, and some of the Australian imports; YellowTail, for instance.

With guests and a nice meal, $8 - $20, Souverain, Charles Krug, Ch. St. Jean, Kenwood, BV, Louis Martini.

If I've been to the wine country and brought back a case or two, names you can't buy just everywhere. The brands I listed are readily available in all liquor stores and many grocery stores in California. They are all distributed nationally.

Two to three times the prices I listed if I'm in a restaurant.

It also helps to say what you mean by "Good". At the $3 level, for you and your wife on a Tuesday, eating meatloaf in front of the television, if it doesn't cloy with sweetness or have too many bits of grape stem, it is wonderful. For your first-born son's 21st birthday, a bottle of Opus 1, at $150 or so would be just about right.

If you are in England, just across the channel from Frnace, try the importers known as B&G. We get it here and they are consistently good value at all price ranges.

Answer 8

In a wine store, between 20 - 45. In a resturant, sky's the limit. A good bottle of wine is very selective though. You may like a 5 dollar bottle of wine while I may like a 15 bottle of wine. Price really makes no diffence, its all about the flavor and the drinker.

Answer 9

We love red wine, look for the wines which are half price, you can get a good bottle for £3 - £4 half price, so I'd say £8 is a fair price to pay.

Answer 10

You don't need to spend a lot of money at all. I would say between $10 and $30 is a pretty reasonable range, but I do know that in PA, the Liquor Control Board has actually started something where they recommend certain wines and offer them at discounts. I've heard nothing but good things about their "Chairman Select" program. Check to see if your state's LCB offers something like that. Also, buying by the case is cheaper in the long run as well, but typically only if you like that wine enough to drink a case of it eventually.